Nigeria: $20 billion & Buhari’s counter to Atiku’s restructuring

$20 billion is apparently the offer agents of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari conveyed to political leaders of the country’s oil and gas producing Niger Delta region in exchange for their vote support at the nation’s presidential election rescheduled for February 24. As Geomarkets Africa reported on February 14, most state leaders from the Niger Delta region are aligned with progressive elements trying to moderate tensions and discourage reactionary violence threatened by militants in the event that the incumbent Buhari, and not Atiku Abubakar, the oppositional candidate running on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, win the presidential election that was …

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