Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said there is no bone of contention between him and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaehi.

Rather, Jonathan stated that Amaechi had a problem with his wife, Patience, which he (Jonathan) tried in vain to resolve.

Jonathan’s disclosed this in a book titled, ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi.

“Jonathan told me that Amaechi’s problem was not with him but rather with his wife and that, at a point, he tried to reconcile them,” the book stated.

While Amaechi admitted that he was at loggerheads with Patience, he said Jonathan was not saying the whole truth, noting that there were also disagreements between him and Jonathan, during the latter’s era as the President.

The ex-Rivers State governor attributed the cause of his grudge with Jonathan to illegal and excess deduction from the federation account by the former president.


He said, “I could not surrender my mandate to a woman (Patience) in Abuja, even if such a person was the wife of the President…that basically was my sin with Dame Patience Jonathan.

“If in one year, you took about N300bn from the federation account to pay for subsidy and the next year, you are taking almost N2tn for the same thing when fundamentals had not changed, then serious questions should be asked.

“And as NGF (Nigerian Governors Forum) chairman, it was my responsibility to ask those questions and Jonathan took them personal.”

Eggcelent:
I can't wait for this book to be officially out.

It sure will worth the read.

There was a belief around President Jonathan that the whole Boko Haram crisis was orchestrated to undermine him and his administration and because of that, there was no interest in resolving the problem

seunmsg:


That book is one heck of a revelation. Everybody seems to have told their election story in the book. In all, Patience Jonathan really dealt a heavy blow to her husband's reelection bid. In fact, Jonathan should have accused Patience of causing his defeat instead of Obama. That woman offended almost everybody that could have supported her husband.

Benekruku:
And same Ameachi happened to be the "Chief Architect" that drafted your defeat in the general election.

eph12:

I thought it was his ineffectiveness that caused his defeat. Others say it was Jagaban

Rather , Jonathan stated that Amaechi had a problem with his wife , Patience , which he ( Jonathan ) tried in vain to resolve.

seunmsg:


That book is one heck of a revelation. Everybody seems to have told their election story in the book. In all, Patience Jonathan really dealt a heavy blow to her husband's reelection bid. In fact, Jonathan should have accused Patience of causing his defeat instead of Obama.

That woman offended almost everybody that could have supported her husband during the election and made an enemy out of them. Future office holders should learn from the failures of Jonathan to manage his wife effectively. There should always be a limit to which a spouse can influence things in the government.

agabusta:


......and yet, people are still blaming Buhari for confining Aisha to za oda room.