Former President Goodluck Jonathan has claimed that he lost the 2015
presidential elections, because of a conspiracy between the USA, Britain
and France.
In a new book “Against The Run of Play” authored by
the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi, Jonathan said
former US President Barack Obama, ex-British Prime Minister David
Cameron and French President Francois Hollande helped President
Muhamamdu Buhari win the election.
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 not confident in him, Jonathan 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.”
Jonathan also admitted that Buhari’s administration was doing a better job on the fight against insurgency.
“What
is happening now with regards to Boko Haram was the same thing that
happened to me regarding Niger Delta militants in 2007.
“I did my
best and so did the military, though I can understand if there is
greater commitment to the fight now than in the past. In my time, Boko
Haram said they were fighting an infidel government. That naturally has
to change since they cannot also call Buhari an infidel.
“There is
a feeling of ‘our man is there now’ that you cannot discountenance. It
was the same feeling with me with the Niger Delta militants at the
initial stage in 2007,” he said.
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