The sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan,
Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke,
the chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees,
Tony Anenih, Ondo State Governor, Olusegun
Mimiko and Ijaw political figure, Edwin Clark,
were the main players in the new scheme.
President Goodluck Jonathan and his inner
circle have begun new moves to jettison
elections altogether, hoping that members of
the National Assembly will agree to postpone
polls once again and instead settle for a so-
called interim national government, according
to information received from several sources,
one of them embedded in the Presidency in
Abuja.
The sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan,
Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke,
the chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees,
Tony Anenih, Ondo State Governor, Olusegun
Mimiko and Ijaw political figure, Edwin Clark,
were the main players in the new scheme.
They are reportedly determined to sell their
new plan to a small nucleus of key legislators
at the National Assembly to discuss how best
to recruit supporters, sources knowledgeable
about the astonishing plot revealed.
The team pushing this new idea, one source
said, is operating on the premise that it
would be “dangerous to hand over power to
Muhammadu Buhari.” Ms. Alison-Madueke
was reported to be a hawkish pusher of the
idea, with one of our sources adding that the
Petroleum Minister was extremely anxious
about the prospect of a Buhari Presidency
exposing her numerous shady deals in the oil
sector through which she and a few players
selected by her have drained billions of
dollars of oil revenues into their private
holdings.
Ms. Alison-Madueke has assured the group
that some officials of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as
several big-time beneficiaries of oil sector
deals, including importers of refined fuel,
were committed to the plan and willing to
provide slush funds to pay a bribe of $2
million dollars to each senator and $1 million
to key members of the House of
Representatives to persuade them to endorse
the plot to derail elections permanently and
install an interim national government. The
president is working through officials of the
NNPC to fund the massive bribe scheme.
Mr. Jonathan’s henchmen have begun
discussions with some members of the
National Assembly as the legislative body
prepares to resume another legislative session
in Abuja next week. It would be the first time
the legislature would sit after the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) announced last week that polls, which
were scheduled for February 14, 2015, had
been postponed for six weeks.
According to those who briefed
SaharaReporters on the latest scheme by the
Presidency, Mr. Jonathan plans to sell to key
legislators the argument that, since Nigeria is
at war at the moment, the government would
need another six months at least to fight off
Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast of
Nigeria before elections can take place.
A source close to a former military head of
state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, told
SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan had
approached the retired officer and pleaded
with him to consider heading an interim
national government that would be put in
place on May 29, 2015 if Mr. Jonathan’s plan
prevails. “General Abubakar promptly
declined the offer and immediately informed
some ex-heads of state about the offer,” the
source disclosed.
Mr. Jonathan and Ms. Madueke have revived
the scheme to avoid elections after a sobering
meeting the president held last Thursday
night with PDP governors and top party
figures. The participants at the meeting were
candid in conceding that the forthcoming
presidential elections would not favor
President Jonathan despite its postponement
for six weeks.
A source close to former President Olusegun
Obasanjo told SaharaReporters that the
incumbent president’s machination to thwart
elections was the provocation for a recent
intensification of verbal warfare between Mr.
Jonathan and ex-President Obasanjo. The
latter has publicly accused Mr. Jonathan of
plotting to stymie election now scheduled for
March 28, the same way former President
Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire caused a
political crisis in his country after loosing an
election, bringing his country close to a civil
war.
The latest plan by Mr. Jonathan, several
sources said, is driven by Ms. Alison-
Madueke’s desperation. The Petroleum
Minister is reportedly worried that she would
not be able to avoid prosecution for several
questionable deals in the oil sector that have
catapulted her and her minions to
billionaires. Her fear is reportedly heightened
by the fact that she does not see the prospect
of being granted asylum in any European or
North American nation should she decide to
flee abroad if Mr. Jonathan loses.
A source close to Mr. Jonathan revealed that
First Lady Patience Jonathan has occasionally
fumed and blamed Ms. Alison-Madueke of
causing her husband’s popular unpopularity.

Ur source or u got it from apc bulletin . GEJ till 2019!!!

What a pity,Jonathan has failed completely.

Without source, this 'report' is very "popular unpopularity"!

Naija I hail thee.

TeamSimple:
Naija I hail thee.

A country where abnormalities are normal.