He was spending his oil money (from light sweet crude that is everyones favorite because it's easy to refine), and he was buying up the IMF debt from the other African nations.

This was preventing them from becoming beholden to the IMF and their lending rules which are designed to bankrupt them and enrich corrupted rulers.

He was vying for a "President of the United Sates of Africa" type position, which he was popular enough to actually get.

He was taking his gold and planned to back a currency with it.

All things that globalists use to destroy nations were taken away from them by Gadaffi, so they took everything from him instead.