Nigeria Is Not A Country. It Is Gilbert Chagoury’s Private Estate.
I was in Geneva today. Two hours with a very senior Swiss banker — a good friend. The subject was Gilbert Chagoury.
This man does not laugh easily. He laughed constantly.
Every time I described what was happening in Nigeria — every contract, every honour, every port deal — he laughed. Not with me. At Nigeria. And I sat there feeling something I rarely allow myself to feel. Shame.
Here is what I was telling him.
Since Tinubu took office, Gilbert Chagoury — a man convicted in Switzerland for laundering Abacha’s stolen funds — has collected over $12.7 billion in Nigerian federal contracts. The Lagos-Calabar Highway. Tin Can Port. Apapa Port. Snake Island. All without competitive bidding. And the President’s son Seyi sits on the board of a Chagoury Group subsidiary — then goes on television to tell Nigerians his father is not enriching his friends.
My banker friend laughed at that one the longest.
In January, Tinubu gave Chagoury Nigeria’s second highest national honour. The presidency didn’t even announce it. Someone posted a photograph on X.
Then came London. A £746 million port financing deal sealed at Downing Street during Tinubu’s state visit — with Chagoury reportedly in the delegation, and his company already selected to execute the contract. The British know his history. They have decided it does not matter.
My Swiss friend told me plainly: Nigeria will never be taken seriously as long as a man who helped Abacha loot the treasury can return decades later, collect billions in contracts, receive national honours, stand beside the President in London, and face zero consequence.
He is right.
I will not stop writing. But tonight I drove back to my hotel carrying the weight of a country that deserves so much better than what it is being given.
Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden
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Picture of Gilbert Chagoury the de facto President of Nigeria , a convicted money launderer who funds Hezbollah and was found guilty of Election tampering in the United States !!!
While we were busy talking about Nasboi and VDM, Bandits tried to Hijack a plane in broad day light, at Akure airport .
Let me rephrase, bandits attempted to seize and take control of a Plane in Ondo State.
A Yoruba land!!!
But they are camped under my Chagoury tweet, defending his future presidential ambition.