I warned Jonathan of Northern Conspiracy that led to his defeat-David Mark Reveals
Ex-Senate President of Nigeria, David Mark has said that ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan was too blind to see during the 2015 general elections.
Senator Mark
said he warned Jonathan of the conspiracy against him in the north before he
lost the 2015 presidential elections.
Mark said
this in the book, “Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was
defeated in Nigeria, written by the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board,
Olusegun Adeniyi.
He said that
he saw the defeat coming and had pointed out the unrealistic voting projections
made by the party about the North to the former president and the conspiracy
against him but he was not taken seriously.
According to
him, “I saw it and at different times, I pointed out to him and the party that
the projections being made by some people around the president about what the
voting pattern in the north would were wrong.
“I could see
the conspiracy and the gang-up building up in the north against the aspiration
of Jonathan but my voice was drowned out by those who took it for granted that
a sitting president, and one from PDP, could not lose.
“Some people
were deceiving the president with the kind of false scenarios they were
painting for him. The VP could see the conspiracy but I don’t know how much
influence he had on the campaign. Why Jonathan couldn’t see it until it was too
late is what I find difficult to understand.”
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