Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesperson of the APC, has alleged that then-governor of Ondo state, wanted Buhari, the APC candidate in 2015, prosecuted for 'certificate forgery' and disqualified from contesting in the presidential election.

While speaking in his upcoming book: ‘On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria’, Bolaji Abdullahi, a minister under Goodluck Jonathan (2011-2014), alleged that former Ondo state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, wanted presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari prosecuted for “certificate forgery” and disqualified from contesting in the 2015 election.

According to TheCable, Mimiko wanted the then attorney general of the federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke to issue a fiat that would have given the power to a private citizen to prosecute Muhamamdu Buhari for certificate forgery which could have led to his disqualification from the election, “or at the very least, disrupt the electoral process”.

But Adoke, despite the pressure, refused to initiate process for Buhari's disqualification, hence, he was blamed by supporters and even Patience Jonathan for the eventual loss of the former president.

Revealing further, the former minister in his book, claimed that Adoke blocked the move by Mimiko and others after he argued that there was no legal basis to prosecute Muhammadu Buhari.

Recall that Buhari had initially claimed that his secondary school certificate was with the military authorities, but they denied having it. He later got a replacement from his alma mater, Government College, Katsina.

In the advance copy of the book, Abdullahi described Jonathan as a man who had “a distinct aversion for taking any action that could be regarded as unlawful or illegal”, and as a result of this, the attorney-general became central to most of the decisions the former president had to make.

Abdullahi said further that Mimiko was at the forefront of the agitation to have Adoke issue a fiat that would have given the power to a private citizen to prosecute Buhari for certificate forgery which could have led to his disqualification from the election.

Adoke stood his ground as pressure grew for him to kick-start the process of disqualifying Buhari a situation that made Jonathan’s supporters, including his wife, blame the attorney-general for the loss.

It was also reported that Patience Jonathan called Adoke a “useless man” for not helping to disqualify candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

Abdullahi wrote: “Two days after the election, Adoke had gone to see the president in respect of the appointment of a new chief judge for the FCT. While waiting in the outer room, the First Lady walked in. He rose to greet her. But she took one long look at him and hissed: ‘Useless man. You betrayed my husband. Now that he has lost the election, you are happy. 

"It was the same Attorney General that Bayo Ojo used to disqualify Atiku for Obasanjo (in 2007). It was the same office that (Mike) Aondoakaa used to make dead man (Umaru Musa Yar’Adua) to rule Nigeria. But when it comes to my husband, you will be shouting, constitution, constitution."

Going further, he wrote: “There were a number of other issues that led many in the president’s immediate political circle to conclude that Adoke was the reason that President Jonathan failed to act with the required toughness on some issues,” Abdullahi wrote.

“When in May 2013 the president declared a state of emergency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, some of the president’s men, led by Ijaw leader Edwin Clark, had asked him to sack the governors of those states as part of the emergency measures. Adoke, on the other hand, counselled the president against sacking the governors, insisting that such action had no constitutional backing. Clark fired back, asking the president to sack Adoke himself.

“Prominent lawyers and civil society groups promptly weighed in on the side of the minister, and commended him for being a ‘constitutional purist’. They noted that he could easily have allowed the president to act differently, if he were so minded, relying on the precedent set by President Obasanjo in the case of Plateau State and Governor Joshua Dariye in 2004 – a matter concerning which the Supreme Court had declined to make a definite ruling.”

http://www.tori.ng/news/80762/revealed-ex-gov-mimiko-asked-jonathan-to-prosecute.html

That use less thing should have been disqualified

Beress:
That use less thing should have been disqualified

Pained wailers

They are still in pains

Beress:
That use less thing should have been disqualified

Oya take this you will be relief

sarrki:


Pained wailers
They are still in pains

Use lesss Zombie

Beress:

Use lesss Zombie

You can a this to it

sarrki:



Pained wailers

They are still in pains

Why u this job less?

Buhari your days are numbered!

Your will end up to be the most useless ex President

The conspiracy against GEJ was massive.

Even this silly Bolaji then was his minister but working against him.

God will judge you all

Booby88:
The conspiracy against GEJ was massive.
Even this silly Bolaji then was his minister but working against him.
God will judge you all

God is already judging them... Their own disgrace will be raised to power two

Oluwabusobomi:
Buhari your days are numbered!

Your will end up to be the most useless ex President

It's just a matter of time, I'm very sure will be disgraced out of office come 2019

Oluwabusobomi:
Buhari your days are numbered!
Your will end up to be the most useless ex President

Exactly!

So, even the apc spokesman knows that Jonathan has respect for the rule of law unlike the blood sucker that now occupies the villa.

sarrki:


Oya take this you will be relief

You see your life? How can a suspension be in tablet for?

Buhari is a failure,tested and confirmed. Forgery is his work.

Beress:
That use less thing should have been disqualified

There was no way Buhari would have been prosecuted for certificate forgery, without a backlash from his supporters and the military. Some former top military officers were already warning Jonathan to stop disgracing their retired senior officers.

Buhari could not have been prosecuted for certificate forgery because the certificate or should I say statement of result did not originate from him but from Katsina secondary school and the Katsina state government, if anyone is to be charged for certificate forgery, it would be those 2 bodies.

The statements of result issued by the school could not have been as a basis for disqualifying Buhari because until the court declares it fake, it remains authentic.

A judgement disqualifying Buhari would be like the june 12 midnight judgment, it would further erode the integrity of the judiciary and lead the country into another round of crisis. Remember I BBC said he annulled the June 12 elections to save us from the judiciary.

nwabobo:


You see your life? How can a suspension be in tablet for?

One of the high chief wailer is finally here

sarrki:



Pained wailers

They are still in pains

He spoke my mind.Jonathan deserves being jailed for giving that useless thing the opportunity to send innocent Nigerians to their untimely death through stone age policies.

Letslive:
You spoke my mind.Jonathan be jailed for giving that useless thing the opportunity to send innocent Nigerians to their untimely death through stone age policies.

You people should take a deep breath and let it go, there was little Jonathan could have done to stop Buhari from contesting and winning the election. The forces against Jonathan both nationally and internationally was formidable.

Evablizin:



Buhari is a failure,tested and confirmed. Forgery is his work.

Yours is a religious thing

You hates him co of religion

So don't hide under any guise

Evablizin:



Buhari is a failure,tested and confirmed. Forgery is his work.

Compare you own life and work with that of Buhari and then tell me with one is a failure.

sarrki:



Pained wailers

They are still in pains

Only a blind idiot will not see that buhari is a useless being.

Goodluck crime was to have come from a minority SS zone who are hitherto regarded as bone-slaves, 5%. the north are pained with the 5yrs Jonathan had spend on the saddle of authority a position seen to be exclusively theirs.

wirinet:


Lame excuse
The same pained north voted for Jonathan 5 years before, maybe they forgot Jonathan was a born slave from minority ST zone.

Goodluck crime was to have come from a minority SS zone who are hitherto regarded as bone-slaves, 5%. the north are pained with the 5yrs Jonathan had spend on the saddle of authority a position seen to be exclusively theirs. They couldnt tolerate having him preside over nigeria beyond the four yrs mandate period.

sarrki:


Yours is a religious thing

You hates him co of religion

So don't hide under any guise

And you too love him because of religion and ethnicity or political regionism

Sunnymatey:
Goodluck crime was to have come from a minority SS zone who are hitherto regarded as bone-slaves, 5%. the north are pained with the 5yrs Jonathan had spend on the saddle of authority a position seen to be exclusively theirs.

Lame excuse
The same pained north voted for Jonathan 5 years before, maybe they forgot Jonathan was a born slave from minority ST zone.

sarrki:

Yours is a religious thing
You hates him co of religion
So don't hide under any guise

Go joor,i don't have enough strength to argue with you. Bye bye.

wirinet:


Compare you own life and work with that of Buhari and then tell me with one is a failure.

Abeg chill. Happy sunday and bye bye.