A new vista has opened in the alleged conspiracy of the US in the electoral defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Jonathan has blamed former US President Barack Obama for his defeat in the 2015 presidential election.

He said Obama was desperate to have him removed, and he alleged that the former US president went as far as turning world leaders against him and sending warships into the Gulf of Guinea in the days preceding the election.

In an advance copy of ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book written by Segun Adeniyi, a renowned journalist, Babangida Aliyu, former Niger state governor and ex-chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, gave a hint of possible US involvement in the electoral trouncing of Jonathan.

He said the Obama administration invited 12 northern governors to the US to ascertain their level of commitment to removing Jonathan.

Although, Aliyu said he had no proof of this, he expressed the belief that the reason for their invitation to the US was deeper than discussing the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.

“I have no proof of course, but I think the idea was to ascertain what the disposition of the north would be to the idea of another term for President Jonathan,” he told Adeniyi.

“That was my reading of the situation. I believe it was all about the 2015 election for which the Americans had resolved not to support Jonathan. They just wanted to size us up for the level of commitment to regime change.”

Aliyu said in one of the sessions, Murtala Nyako, former Adamawa state governor, accused Jonathan of sponsoring Boko Haram with the intent of destroying the north.

He added that Nyako’s accusation signalled to the Americans that the north was not in support Jonathan’s re-election bid.

He also said that if Jonathan had declined to re-contest and had allowed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to field a young candidate from the north, President Muhammadu Buhari would have pulled out of the race.

“If Jonathan had been clever enough to say he would not run and had stuck with the PDP zoning formula by supporting a young northern candidate, I am most certain Buhari would have shelved his ambition to contest in 2015, knowing there was no way he would win,” he said.

The book, which details how Jonathan lost the 2015 election, will be launched on Friday.

Adeniyi, the author, is the editorial board chairman of THISDAY.

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“I have no proof of course, but I think the idea ...

“If Jonathan had been clever enough to say he would not run and had stuck with the PDP zoning formula by supporting a young northern candidate, I am most certain Buhari would have shelved his ambition to contest in 2015, knowing there was no way he would win,” he said.

genearts:
it seems this book has some interesting stuffs in it....

ZKOSOSO:
Am just grateful to God that PMB messed up. Still messing upandan!!

Nbote:
In otherwords power jus had to return to d north... Atleast the truth is beginning to com out... D north simply had their mind made up on choosing a northern candidate whether from PDP or NEPA. And it all started with the Governors forum brouhaha. GEJ was simply playing "Mr Niceguy" forgetting u need ruthlessness to deal with the power hungry north. OBJ became aggrieved because he was sidelined.. Buhari's win was neva about pedigree because ppl still remember d economic hardships nigerians faced and how PTF was run aground.. I jus hope nigerians have learnt their lessons d hard way even though it may already b to late.

omenkaLives:
Yet we should take you seriously, mr Opolo eyes.

seunmsg:


Even the frog eyed Babangida Aliyu thinks Jonathan is a not so clever ineffectual buffoon.

From OBJ, David Mark to the servant-prisoner, everybody just they shade the Otuoke fisherman.

madridguy:
Babangida Aliyu should and go sit down somewhere and stop vomiting thrash. Bunch of failures, you empty Niger State treasury for your daughters wedding and now you're looking for public sympathy. You all messed GEJ regime same way some bastards in APC are doing to PMB now.

Bunch of selfish looters.

shadeyinka:
Sentiments as side, most intelligent Nigerians wanted Goodluck out of the Presidency at all cost even if his replacement is a Togolese Farmer.

Buhari benefitted from this simply because he is from an opposition party AND he is known for his anti corrupting stance.

shadeyinka:
Sentiments as side, most intelligent Nigerians wanted Goodluck out of the Presidency at all cost even if his replacement is a Togolese Farmer.

Buhari benefitted from this simply because he is from an opposition party AND he is known for his anti corrupting stance.

newbornmacho:
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drss2:
n they used boko arams to return porwer to d north.