A European owned Energy Company with the knack for pursuing cheap assets across Africa is at it again and this time, we gathered reliably its resolve is to stop at nothing until the Nigerian asset is craftily acquired.

The same company that has acquired assets in Niger and Cameroon these past few years is fiercely gunning for a Nigerian company with a subsidiary in one of the popular tax haven Islands and would stop at nothing to ensure a hostile takeover of the company through the backdoor.

In her ploy to achieve this goal, the company had parleyed the board of the subsidiary of the Nigerian Oil and Gas firm who wants to auction shareholdings of poor investors met the one willing to buy the cheapest possible assets in the continent with the ultimate goal of acquiring the multi-million-dollar Nigerian asset like Elon Musk just did Twitter.

So, the Energy company had hired a renowned Nigerian attorney with the status of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to do the dirty job of luring the top brass in the mother company of the Nigerian Oil and Gas firm.

Unfortunately for the European Energy Company, it mis-stepped by hiring an attorney fingered in one of Nigeria’s shadiest businesses ever, the Malabu deal. Since his appointment and attendant briefing of the issues, he has gone ahead to seek the buy-in of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria with an offer to become the chairman of the new company the European Energy Company is prospecting to birth. The plot never saw the light of day as the ex-governor of CBN who is also renowned social critic blatantly turned down the offer.

When that failed, to further prove he’s not a wrong hire, the respected lawyer approached the chairman of the Nigerian Oil and Gas company with a whopping sum of money in hard currency and offered her a place as the chairman of the dream company when it finally berths. Again, he was let down as the highly-principled lady, a daughter of a former Nigerian Head of State, would not betray her company for anything under the sun.

Resilient in his new assignment, the lawyer ferociously went after the company’s secretary with another offer to jump ship and join his dream company- the result of that wooing? Your guess remains as good as mine. It remains unknown any member of the board of the Nigerian oil and gas company that’s not been lured by this lawyer who by now should have seen that the clandestine plot to hijack the Nigerian asset is but a wild goose chase.