Chetuya Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago
It is deeply terrifying, and frankly a sickening display of comprador treason, that a former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is now openly calling for foreign military interventions in his own country. It is absolutely shameful and disgusting that a former Head of State, a man who naturally had access to unredacted, highly classified intelligence reports detailing the ruthless mechanisms of Western imperialism, is advocating for the very forces that destroy nations. He has watched firsthand as foreign interventions systematically created burning, failed states across Africa, as seen in the catastrophic destruction of Libya, the endless balkanization of Sudan, the engineered chaos in Somalia, and the corporate looting of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
And this imperial devastation is not limited to Africa alone. If we look at Latin America, we can easily point to the CIA-backed bloodbaths in Nicaragua, the violent overthrow of democracy in Chile, the funded death squads in El Salvador, and the corporate extraction in Guatemala. Yet, this exact same man is confidently sitting on national television, calling for those exact same foreign predators to intervene in his own sovereign country.
Listen very carefully to the treacherous statement he made during his recent AIT interview. He declared, "If our government cannot do it, if they cannot protect us, we have a right to call on the international community."
Now, on the superficial surface, the naive public might interpret this as a bold, direct attack on the current political establishment. But on a much deeper, geopolitical level, this is a calculated psychological operation. This is especially true when you recognize that under this current Tinubu administration, Nigeria has practically surrendered its territorial sovereignty by allowing the US government and AFRICOM to negotiate military drone bases in the North, and by quietly permitting foreign intelligence to dictate our security parameters under the fraudulent guise of fighting "insecurity."
So, this highly publicized statement from Obasanjo is not in any way a genuine attack on Tinubu. He is actually acting as a mouthpiece for the empire, deliberately conditioning the Nigerian people to accept that their domestic situation is entirely "hopeless." He is executing a psychological warfare campaign to prepare the minds of the masses to eventually see heavily armed foreign troops on their soil, not as a hostile military occupation or a nation under imperial siege, but as a miraculous form of "liberation."
But again, none of this is remotely surprising when you consider the source. This is coming directly from Olusegun Obasanjo, the exact same comprador elite who singlehandedly destroyed the foundational education system of his own country by working hand-in-glove with predatory Western and multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, and the UK Department for International Development.
It was precisely under the Obasanjo administration in 1999 that these foreign agents engineered the Universal Basic Education scheme in Nigeria, and Obasanjo happily implemented it on their behalf to satisfy his Western handlers. Of course, this satanic program was beautifully dressed in colorful humanitarian costumes and aggressively marketed as a revolutionary scheme that would transform primary education in Nigeria, promising free, compulsory, and continuous nine-year basic education for every single Nigerian child.
But on a structural level, what this neo-colonial policy actually did was permanently sever federal funding pipelines and deliberately starve local teachers of their rightful salaries. Understand that before this World Bank intervention, the federal government had a functional system. Before sharing revenue from the Federation Account among the three tiers of government, the state deducted the total exact amount needed for primary school teachers' salaries and basic operational costs directly from the source.
This deducted money was paid directly into the National Primary Education Fund managed by NPEC. NPEC then disbursed the funds seamlessly to State Primary Education Boards and Local Government Education Authorities. Because the money was safely deducted at the federal level before it could ever reach the greedy hands of state governors or local politicians, primary school teachers' salaries were absolutely guaranteed. This effectively ended the dark era of unpaid teachers and ensured that public primary schools across the nation had a steady, reliable baseline of operational funding.
This protective payment scheme was originally introduced by the Babangida administration because he was being violently forced to cut funding for primary education and healthcare under the ruthless Structural Adjustment Programmes attached to the IMF loans he so happily collected. So, under that specific NPEC scheme, the baseline funding for primary education was temporarily shielded from the austerity measures demanded by his Western creditors.
But the main reason the IMF and the World Bank give you loans is never to actually grow your domestic economy, nor is it to properly fund your educational institutions. Their goal is much more sinister. They seek total economic subjugation. So they absolutely had to kill this financial backdoor that Babangida created, which allowed the state to bypass their financial imperialism. And Olusegun Obasanjo, the exact same man who is shamelessly calling for foreign interventions today, happily welcomed this destruction.
His new UBE system strictly stipulated that federal UBE funds could never be used to pay teachers' salaries or cover daily school running costs. These critical operational burdens were violently pushed entirely back onto the states and the local governments, which are heavily underfunded. Consequently, corrupt governors happily diverted whatever local funds they had to bogus security votes or to paving random roads just to open their states up for foreign corporate investments, leaving the teachers to starve.
Furthermore, the federal government simultaneously stopped direct capital interventions. They stopped building infrastructural projects, they stopped supplying subsidized textbooks, they stopped funding essential teacher training, they stopped providing modern laboratory equipment, they stopped providing mechanized agricultural tools for rural schools, and they completely halted digital literacy programs.
If a Local Government wants to access the trapped UBE funding for these basic necessities today, they are legally forced to meet a ridiculous fifty percent matching fund requirement. The vast majority of these local governments, especially those in impoverished rural communities, cannot even come close to meeting this threshold because they simply do not have any functional way to generate enough internal revenue to meet those strict corporate criteria.
This has created a devastating national nightmare where hundreds of billions of naira are currently sitting idle and trapped in Universal Basic Education accounts in Abuja, while thousands of schools across Nigeria are completely dilapidated and look like abandoned war zones. Students are forced to sit on bare floors, learn under leaking roofs, rely on underpaid and demoralized contract teachers, and buy highly expensive textbooks that the state claims it cannot afford to provide.
This intentionally creates a hyper-polarized, deeply unequal situation in the country where people in the commercial cities have slightly better access to education because their local governments can generate enough money through extortionate market levies, heavy corporate taxes, and federal allocation advantages to unlock these matching funds, while our rural communities are systematically doomed to disintegrate into absolute oblivion.
Also, it was under this same administration that the Christian Association of Nigeria and massive Islamic Associations such as NSCIA, JNI, and JIBWIS actively lobbied the government. These are organizations that receive tens of millions of dollars annually from foreign nations like Saudi Arabia, the US, and the UK under the deceptive guise of "humanitarian aids" and "religious grants". They lobbied the Obasanjo administration to aggressively integrate Christian Religious Studies and Islamic Religious Studies into the core school curriculum, making them strictly compulsory under the Universal Basic Education scheme.
This fatal political concession practically turned our secular school systems into neocolonial theological institutes. It opened the floodgates to seamlessly integrate radical Salafi-Wahhabi doctrines and Western evangelical subservience directly into the Nigerian educational system, effectively weaponizing religion to divide the youth and program them for absolute docility.
It is also incredibly important to note that it was precisely Obasanjo who violently ripped Nigerian markets open for foreign corporations to feast on the blood of the country. He ran a brutal, uncompromising privatization and commercialization program that involved him auctioning off hundreds of state-owned enterprises. He sold off our commercial banks, our national cement plants, our state oil marketing groups, our federal hotels, and our sovereign vehicle assembly plants to the absolute highest bidder, effectively transferring national wealth into the hands of a few comprador oligarchs and foreign cartels.
Because of his policies, most state-owned enterprises today are either fully bought by foreign corporations or they are controlled by ruthless private monopolies. And since they are owned by private individuals, maximizing shareholder profit becomes the absolute, primary goal of the institution, completely disregarding the welfare and survival of the Nigerian people. For example, in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria today, only 49 percent of the joint ventures are state-owned, while the controlling 51 percent belongs entirely to international oil majors. This means that if anything goes wrong in the global oil sector, the prices of fuel are instantly skyrocketed locally, and the crushing economic burden is seamlessly pushed onto the necks of impoverished Nigerians just to keep Western shareholders happy and to balance corporate books on the tears of the masses.
So this is exactly why I am not surprised for a single second that the same man whose neoliberal policies singlehandedly crippled the educational system of the country, who opened our borders for NGO vultures to feast on our sovereignty, who introduced compulsory religious education to aggressively brainwash the masses, and who shamelessly sold off our sovereign state-owned institutions to the highest foreign bidder, is once again sitting on television calling on foreign military interventions to come and occupy the country.
What truly surprises and sickens me is that a large population of Nigerians still hold this man in high regard. They actually believe he is an elder statesman fighting for the good of Nigeria, completely ignoring the glaring historical fact that he was a primary architect in the coalition that maliciously imposed the Western-backed puppet, Muhammadu Buhari, into power, accelerating the total economic and security collapse we are suffering today.
