Laitan Adesanya stews in a red, hot cauldron as you read. His thoughts cannot translate into coherent, audible sentences. He chatters in the folds of fright. Courage deserts him causing his joy to vapourise. The big boss of Leno Oil suffers dishonour like a Victorian knight felled by the plot of a medieval ogre. It would be recalled that the banker-turned-businessman rose to national consciousness during the dark days of military rule when a contract in which he was involved with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) became the subject of public discourse in 1992.
He was also reported to have been on a collision course with the brutally unsparing regime of General Sani Abacha over his alleged purchase of 50 percent of the shares in Texaco Oil, which eventually led him into a self-imposed exile in order to escape from the grip of Abacha goons. At a point, he was rumoured to be fronting for a late former first lady. There is no gainsaying that era unfurled gloomily for him.
The ruling tyranny swooped on his business and made several attempts to eliminate him. Before the advent of his misfortune under military tyranny, Leno was a super big boy who had all the good things of life at his beck and call. So influential was he that his friendship was always courted by the crème de la crème and the bourgeoisie within the society. But no sooner did he encounter his travails than his friends and associates deserted him. Of course, he bounced back big time. He was making money quietly. Until his name was mentioned in the$115m slush fund to Diezani. He has been arrested again. We only hope Laitan we come out of this clean…only time will tell.
