Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has alleged that ex-US President, Barack Obama, plotted his defeat in 2015.
Jonathan made this allegation in his new book, ‘My
Transition Hours’ due to launch on Tuesday.
He said Obama displayed an unusual level of bias during the
2015 elections, describing him as overbearing and ‘condescending’ in his
message to Nigerians ahead of the 2015 general election.
According to Jonathan, “On March 23, 2015, President Obama
himself took the unusual step of releasing a video message directly to
Nigerians all but telling them how to vote.”
Giving the details in the book, Jonathan said, “In that
video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the ‘next chapter’ by their votes.
“Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he
was prodding the electorate to vote for the opposition to form a new
government.”
According to Premium Times, which obtained a copy of the
book hours before its unveiling in Abuja on Tuesday, Jonathan had kept the book
secret in order to avoid excerpts of it being published ahead of its formal
launch.
DAILY POST recalls that Jonathan lost the 2015 elections to
the late President Muhammadu Buhari, marking the first time an incumbent
president would lose reelection.
He assumed office in 2010 following the death of President
Umaru Yar’Adua, getting his own mandate of four years at the 2011 presidential
election.
“The message was so condescending, it was as if Nigerians
did not know what to do and needed an Obama to direct them,” Jonathan said of
the video message.
He lampooned Obama, who was American president from 2009
until 2017, for saying all Nigerians must be able to cast their votes without
intimidation or fear, but was reluctant to allow the Nigerian security forces
drive Boko Haram insurgents away from the Nigerian territories they had been
occupying in order to free Nigerian citizens there ahead of elections.
Jonathan also took a harsh aim at former US Secretary of
State, John Kerry, saying the diplomat was nonchalant in his attitude towards
his government, despite all efforts to make him understand that the decision to
postpone election was in the overall interest of Nigeria.
“How can the U.S. Secretary of State know what is more
important for Nigeria than Nigeria’s own government? How could they have
expected us to conduct elections when Boko Haram controlled part of the North
East and were killing and maiming Nigerians?
“Not even the assurance of the sanctity of May 29, 2015
handover date could calm them down. In Nigeria, the Constitution is very clear:
No President can extend his tenure by one day,” Jonathan said.
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