Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that he could have halted the 2015 general elections after facing repeated failures with the INEC card reader system.
Speaking during a recent interview, he disclosed that the
card reader rejected him, his wife, and his mother at their polling unit.
“In 2015, the INEC card reader rejected many voters in the
South, including me and my wife, causing frustration. Meanwhile in the North,
instructions allowed everyone to vote without accreditation. So you really see
something not quite right. I could have stopped the election,” Jonathan said.
He described the situation as highly tense, noting the
North-South and Christian-Muslim divides at the time.
Jonathan also revealed that there were daily rumors of a
coup and that his life had been under threat.
“If anybody wants to kill me, it’s better you kill me in the
State House so Nigerians will know that they assassinated me there. I had not
committed any offense,” he said.
Jonathan said he refused to stay in a guest house for
safety, fearing that any attack outside the State House could be falsely
attributed to others.
“If I decided to go and stay in a guest house and wherever I’m
going, security people would know. And if people go and kill me there, they
will now say Indian girls brought apples to kill me. And I wouldn’t want those
kind of stories.”
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