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former Bayelsa State Security Adviser has opened up about why Nigeria's
immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan lost his re-election bid.
Goodluck Jonathan
Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, a former Security Adviser to Bayelsa State
Government, yesterday, said that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost
the 2015 presidential election because of the retaliation from those he
betrayed politically.
According to Vanguard, Kpodoh, who was reacting to the book,
Against the Run of Play, authored by Segun Adeniyi, Chairman of the
Editorial Board of ThisDay Newspapers, said that though the book was
full of contentious claims and finger pointing by the former president, “He
should know that those he betrayed waited for him during the
presidential election to have their pound of flesh. The loss at the poll
was self-inflicted.”
Kpodoh, who was the Interim Chairman of All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Bayelsa State, said that the former president betrayed the
people of the Niger Delta by refusing to change their status with roads
and other infrastructure.
Kpodoh argued that the people of the North East voted against the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the former president because they
felt betrayed over the issues of the Chibok girls and the partial state
of emergency invoked by the former administration.
“Jonathan’s Presidency never wanted the people of the North
East to vote. But they shocked him by coming out en masse to vote
despite threats by Boko Haram.”
On the reported claim by the former president that President
Muhammadu Buhari succeeded against Boko Haram because he is from the
North, Kpodoh said the claim was a defeatist argument, noting, “Buhari
won against Boko Haram because he is committed to the nation’s unity.
Jonathan lost against Boko Haram because he lost the trust of the North
East on the abduction of the Chibok girls.
“When the Chibok girls were kidnapped, the Jonathan’s
Presidency had doubt. If they had moved quickly, they would have saved
the Chibok girls."
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