Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has narrated
how he endured tension in the Presidential Villa when he was serving as Vice
President.
Jonathan, who spoke in an interview with the Rainbow Book
Club about his memoir ‘My Transition Hours’, recounted what transpired between
him and some northerners when his former boss, Umar Yar’Adua was battling ill
health.
He alleged that there were conspiracies aimed at booting him
out of the Villa in a bid to deny the South the opportunity to succeed
Yar’Adua.
According to the former Nigerian leader, the country was at
that time, tense following the “North-South, Christian-Muslim divide”. “Every
day I was hearing about a coup”, he noted.
He revealed that sometime when Yar’Adua was out of the
country following his deteriorating health condition, he was advised by some
friends to vacate the Presidential Villa for his safety.
Jonathan said he turned down the advice and decided to stay
back in the Presidential Villa not minding what may happen to him.
“I remember one day, I was still Vice President, they had
not even moved the Doctrine of Necessity and some of my friends came and said,
‘No, you don’t have to sleep here. You have to come and sleep in my guest
house.
“I said, ‘No.’ I will stay in the State House. If anybody
wants to kill me, it’s better you kill me in the State House so Nigerians will
know that they assassinated me in the State House. They know I have not
committed any offence,” he said.
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