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THE NARRATIVE BEFORE THE INTERVENTION: HOW WASHINGTON IS SHAPING NIGERIA’S STORY. - November 21, 2025 - Part 1
Foreign intervention never begins with airplanes, sanctions or soldiers. It begins with stories. It begins with how a country is described, framed, understood and judged by powerful nations.
Iraq did not begin with missiles. It began with a narrative about weapons of mass destruction. Libya did not begin with bombs. It began with a narrative about protecting civilians. Syria did not begin with airstrikes. It began with a narrative about humanitarian responsibility.
The same pattern is now forming around Nigeria, and the speed is alarming.
The life sentence delivered to Nnamdi Kanu on November 20, 2025 is a perfect example. A Nigerian court, after years of legal proceedings, found him guilty on seven terrorism related charges, including directing violence, issuing sit at home orders, caused hundreds of deaths, and guiding bomb making. The court described him as an international terrorist and chose life imprisonment instead of the death penalty.
Within hours, a US lawmaker declared that the conviction was evidence of religious persecution.
A terrorism judgment became a faith narrative in a single step. This did not happen randomly, it is structural and it is how congressional narratives are built.
A legal event happens. American lawmakers interpret it through a moral lens that suits domestic politics. The narrative becomes a talking point. Talking points become resolutions. Resolutions become sanctions or conditions. And at the end of that chain lies the justification for foreign intervention.
This is the architecture we are watching being built around Nigeria.
What makes the situation even more concerning is that this narrative did not start yesterday. It has been shaped for years, intentionally and deliberately, through structured lobbying.
Foreign Agents Registration Act filings in Washington show that IPOB and its affiliates hired American lobbying firms to promote a narrative of Christian persecution in Nigeria. The message was clear: Nigeria is killing Christians, the Nigerian state is complicit, and the South East faces genocide. These claims were crafted to appeal to the American evangelical and conservative network that sees global Christian victimhood as a core political issue.
This lobbying created a permanent narrative frame. Even after contracts ended, the impression remained inside congressional offices, in briefing notes, in staff memory and in committee debates. Lobbying does not disappear when the cheque stops. It leaves a shadow.
This is why the same Congress that invokes Christian persecution rarely mentions certain facts.
It ignores that Boko Haram has killed more Muslims than Christians. It ignores that banditry in the North West is driven by economic motives, not religion. It ignores that many Christian communities in the Middle Belt are attacked, but Muslim communities across the North and Middle Belt also suffer the same fate in even larger numbers. It ignores that IPOB and ESN splinter groups killed over 700 Christians in the South East and enforced violent sit at home campaigns. It ignores that Finland, a Western nation, convicted a key Biafran agitator for terrorism in September 2025. It ignores that the Nigerian court conviction of Kanu was based on evidence, not on faith.
And it ignores the deaths of Muslims who are also victims of the same terror networks. Only days before some US lawmakers repeated the Christian genocide narrative, terrorists abducted and murdered the Ameer of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in Kebbi State, Alqasim Uthman Ibrahim. He was kidnapped and killed in captivity, without media attention, international outrage or congressional concern.
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Certainly, the late President Buhari didn’t get enough credit for his decisive role in saving Nigeria from being cheated of billions of dollars in the infamous P&ID case. It started in January 2010, under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, when Nigeria signed a 20-year Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) with a British Virgin Islands company, Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID). The deal required P&ID to build and operate a gas processing facility in Calabar, Cross River State, while Nigeria would supply the gas, and in return, we would get the processed gas for power generation.
However, the deal collapsed in 2012, and the project never took off. Amid allegations of fraud and non-performance, P&ID turned around to claim that Nigeria had breached the contract by failing to supply the gas, even though it had not built any plant. So, in 2017, a London arbitration tribunal ruled in favor of P&ID, awarding $6.6 billion in damages, with interest (7% annually), the amount grew to over $11 billion by 2019, roughly one-third of our foreign reserves at the time.
President Buhari vehemently rejected the ruling and stood firm against what was clearly an attempt by P&ID and some bad actors to defraud Nigeria. He ordered a full investigation into how the contract was awarded, which led to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arresting several officials and exposing evidence of bribes, forged documents, and a lack of due process in the deal. PMB directed Nigeria’s legal team to challenge the contract and personally took the matter to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, alerting the international community to how P&ID, with the help of some corrupt Nigerians, attempted to rob Nigeria of billions.
Under his leadership, the government launched comprehensive legal and criminal investigations, leading to the convictions of P&ID affiliates for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering. Nigeria also sought to overturn the arbitration award in the UK High Court.
In October 2023, Justice Robin Knowles of the London High Court ruled in favor of Nigeria, setting aside the $11 billion award after finding overwhelming evidence of fraud, bribery and perjury by P&ID. The judge described the arbitration as tainted and contrary to public policy.
The court further ordered P&ID to pay Nigeria £43 million in damages and to refund the legal costs. Still, P&ID appealed to the UK Supreme Court, arguing it should be allowed to pay Nigeria in naira instead of pounds.
Yesterday, the UK Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, ruling that P&ID must pay the £43 million in pounds sterling, the same currency Nigeria used to pay its lawyers.
This entire episode stands as a landmark victory for Nigeria and a legacy of Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve, patriotism and leadership in defending Nigeria’s sovereignty from international fraud.
May you continue to rest in peace, Baba. 🤲🏽
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@Abdullahi2A@Waspapping_ It is as if you were with us when we discussed the capacity of materials we imported last week alone at Kwari market Kano. It's saddening and frightening the direction our nation continues to move towards.
Where do people like you pluck up the courage to assume that you have the moral legitimacy to speak on issues like this? You championed one of the most
brutal mayhem and massacre against innocent
defenseless men, women and children of sovereign
nations like Libya, Yemen, Syria -
Northerners need to go on streets & PROTEST if they truly want to capture the attention of local and international mainstream media, as well as the Federal Government. That's the only way to prompt swift action.
Professor Sani Alhassan courtesy of whom Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital became a center of excellence for kidney transplants has performed what is probably the first Kidney transplant in Umuahia, Abia State (not Nigeria) by a Nigerian Doctor.
FMC Umauahi has performed 4 other kidney transplants through foreign doctors.