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Goodluck Explained Why He Accepted Defeat In Election by Teymanhenry(f): 12:53pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
- Former president, Goodluck Jonathan,
blames Barack Obama, David Cameron and
French president Francois Hollande, for his
defeat in the 2015 general elections
- Jonathan says he was betrayed by those he
relied on to defeat Buhari
- The former president accuses the former
chairman of INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, of
acting American’s script in the weeks
preceding the elections
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan,
has said foreign powers helped
President Muhammadu Buhari emerge
victorious in the 2015 general election.
Jonathan blamed his loss in the election
on former United States president,
Barack Obama, ex-British prime
minister, David Cameron and French
President Francois Hollande who he
said aided President Muhammadu
Buhari’s victory.
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Jonathan reminisced on his defeat in a
new book, “Against The Run of Play” ,
which is authored by the chairman of
This Day editorial board, Mr. Olusegun
Adeniyi, The Nation reports.
The former president said he was
betrayed by those he relied on to defeat
Buhari.
Jonathan has accused the former chairman of
INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, of acting American’s
script in the weeks preceding the elections.
He said: “ President Barack Obama and
his officials made it very clear to me by
their actions that they wanted a change
of government in Nigeria and we’re
ready to do anything to achieve that
purpose. They even brought some naval
ships into the Gulf of Guinea in the days
preceding the election.
“I got on well with Prime Minister David
Cameron but at some point, I noticed
that the Americans were putting
pressure on him and he had to join them
against me. But I didn’t realise how far
President Obama was prepared to go to
remove me until France caved in to the
pressure from America.
“But weeks to the election, he had also
joined the Americans in supporting the
opposition against me.
On why Obama was against him, he
said: " There was this blanket accusation
that my body language was supporting
corruption, a line invented by the
opposition but which the media and civil
society bought into and helped to project
to the world. That was the same thing I
kept hearing from the Americans
without specific allegations.”
He accused the former chairman of the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega,
of acting American’s script in the weeks
preceding the elections.
“I was disappointed by Jega because I
still cannot understand what was
propelling him to act the way he did in
the weeks preceding the election.
“As at the first week in February 2015
when about 40 per cent of Nigerians had
not collected their Permanent Voters
Cards (PVCs), Jega said INEC was ready
to go ahead with the election. How could
INEC have been ready to conduct an
election in which millions of people will
be disenfranchised?
“Of course, the Americans were
encouraging him to go ahead yet they
would never do such thing in their own
country. How could we have cynically
disenfranchised about a third of our
registered voters for no fault of theirs
and still call that a credible election?
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“The interesting thing was that the
opposition also supported the idea of
going on with an election that was
bound to end in confusion," he said.
NAIJ.com learnt that Jonathan also
insisted that it was right for his
administration to have postponed the
election based on security reasons.
“When the military and security chiefs
demanded for more time to deal with the
insurgency, the reasons were genuine. As
at February 2015, it would have been
very difficult to vote in Gombe,
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
“But the moment all the arms and
ammunition that had been ordered
finally arrived, the military was able to
use them to degrade the capacity of Boko
Haram.”
Although the former president faulted
the results of the 2015 presidential
election, he said he conceded defeat to
avoid bloodshed.
“Go and check the results from Kano.
The Presidential election and that of
National Assembly happened on the
same day and same time. The National
Assembly result reflected that about
800,000 people voted but that of the
presidential reflected a vote of about 1.8
million. I had reports of what happened
but I decided that for such to be
accepted, it meant that those who called
themselves my supporters must have
colluded. I was betrayed by the very
people I relied on to win the election.
“In 2011 when Buhari did not campaign
anywhere and could not have won the
election, there was a spontaneous violent
reaction that led to the death of several
innocent people, including Youth Corps
members.”
“I asked myself: what would happen in a
situation in which there was already
internal and international conspiracy in
his favour? I could not bear the thought
of anybody dying, so I told myself I had
only one option and that was to
concede," Jonathan said.
Meanwhile, the former president has
faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s
style of fighting corruption, saying it
forces people to go into exile for
political reasons.
Jonathan said that his family is being
hounded by the Buhari administration.
He said if every president decides to go
in to dismantle what his predecessor
did, society will never make progress.
Jonathan suggested that Buhari could
still fight corruption using a different
style.
In the video below, NAIJ.com asks
Nigerians if they still drink Sprite and
Fanta after reports emerged that the
drinks could have serious health
implications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MvVSl5WPBkQ |
Re: Goodluck Explained Why He Accepted Defeat In Election by SalamRushdie: 12:57pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
Jonathan the conspiracy against you was omni directional from international to local and even you conspired against your self too...lessons he a been learnt and your time is past but the best you can do now is support Nigerians in every way to make sure this is Buharis last tenure Sir |
Re: Goodluck Explained Why He Accepted Defeat In Election by Hofbrauhaus(m): 1:06pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
Thank God we gave Buhari a chance...we have seen he is such a dumbass....we are throwing him out in a matter of months... Thanks. |
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