Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s senior adviser on media, Dr. Reuben Abati, has dismissed the widespread view that the former president lost the last election because of incompetence and
cluelessness.
Abati said in his first major interview in the October/
November edition of The Interview, that Jonathan
was “a victim of power game” and the vicious
propaganda of the opposition.
He said, “All they could focus on was trying to
discredit the president. They called him clueless; they said he was incompetent; they said he was a
drunkard!” In a separate interview also featured in the coming edition of The Interview, Mr. Femi Adesina, the senior adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, expressed a different view.
Adesina said he knew that Jonathan would lose and
was not surprised when it happened.
“If Jonathan had won the election, Nigeria would
have shut down”, he said, adding that the
government had run out of steam.
Abati spoke on the last days of Jonathan in the Aso
Rock Villa, his own controversial retraction of the
article against Buhari, the attitude of the moneybags
who abandoned Jonathan in his moment of need, his relationship with former first lady, Patience Jonathan, and his love-hate drama with many of his passionate fans.
Adesina was no less forthright. He spoke on Buhari’s
style, the war on corruption and Boko Haram, the
CBN’s policy of defending the naira, and his
relationship with the president.
The edition, which promises to keep the reader on
the edge of their seats, also contains interviews with
the incoming vice chancellor of the University of
Ibadan, Professor Abel Olayinka; a conversation with Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi; and an insight by social entrepreneur, Chude Jideonwu on how Red
Media Africa ran Buhari’s election campaign.
www.leadership.ng/news/467523/jonathan-was-a-victim-of-power-game-abati

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nice post

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HMM

Abati is still pained by the sudden exit of his boss from office.

He should stop playing blame games and face reality. Jonathan is gone and gone for good.

Nobody is even thinking about Jonathan again.

#changehascome.

U guys should leave this man alone na abi?

Oya wailers!!! Food don done o!

this guy still thinks he is spokesman for Goodluck ebele jona.

somebody should tell this learner that outside Aso rock it's every man for himself. ask Edwin Clark.

not suprised u benefited from gej weakness. And by whateva way contributed to his sack. The ordinary nigerian and illerate masses do not understand what u call power play or propaganda. All it knew was the country was without a president, it just had jezebels with frog eyes who head the most sensitive positions and were not accountable to anyone, just stealing everything and remitting nothing. That action which was crumbling everything they could get from fg. Gej lost to the masses and to his thirst for corruption

He said, “All they could focus on was trying to discredit the president. They called him clueless; they said he was incompetent; they said he was a drunkard!”

You can call PMB "dullard", "illiterate", "terrorist", etc, it doesn't change the fact that the man is loved by many. Jonathan was simply hated by many, it had nothing to do with the names he was called.

Power Game indeed! Nigerians always trying to find motives & theories for every event, instead of looking at the event for what it is. Jonathan was simply incompetent, weak and corrupt - that is why he lost the elections.

Are you telling me that when I went out to vote for PMB, that I cared about any power brokers? Rubbish! I only cared about who I believed would best advance my interest as an ordinary Nigerian. Get that into your skulls and you may have a chance to get back to Aso Rock in 2027. (note that PMB will not contest in 2019 but his performance will ensure that APC wins and stay in power for another 8 years)

Victim of a power game and Jonathan lost. It demonstrates that he was clueless and incompetent.

Jonathan's strength and weaknesses are known to God!!!!

Indeed!

He must be very stupidd to allow himself to be out-maneuvred like that.
Buhari would rather suspend the constitution than lose.

He meant his former boss was a "political casuality"

Jonathan sef

BS

people voted out GEJ because he was a useless leader ..He had no idea how to run the country and allowed corruption to thrive ...

Abati ...go eat sour grapes

Abeg make Abati leave this Jesus of otuoke alone make he enjoy his loot jareee... ;DAbeg make Abati leave this Jesus of otuoke alone make he enjoy his loot jareee...