Jega’s INEC conspired against me in 2015 – Jonathan

Previous President Goodluck Jonathan has recommended a huge scheme by the Independent National Electoral Commission which halfway cost him his re-appointment in 2015.


Mr Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party yielded thrashing to Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress on March 31, 2015, proclaiming the primary triumph for a resistance stage in Nigeria's presidential decision history.

In another book made open on Tuesday, Mr Jonathan said INEC's one-sided circulation of casting a ballot qualifications to the electorate accelerated his annihilation at the March 28, 2015 general decisions.

"Oddly enough, the INEC had possessed the capacity to accomplish close 100% appropriation of Permanent Voter Cards in the North, including the North East, which was under attack with Boko Haram rebellion however neglected to record a comparative dimension of dissemination in the South which was moderately more serene," the previous president wrote in the book he propelled at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja Tuesday evening.

As the race got in progress, Mr Jonathan said he given careful consideration to reports of anomalies as intensified in the media, yet he was hesitant to ride on such reasons to dismiss the outcomes.

"Web based life was loaded up with all way of stories, pictures and recordings. I had settled in my mind that I was not going to be the sitting president calling attention to these infractions and charging the resistance and the very INEC I reinforced.

"The world saw my experience at the surveying unit in my locale in Bayelsa State, where the card peruser rejected my PVC even after we attempted over and again amid accreditation.

"What's more, it was the equivalent with my significant other and my mom. It was a minute that uncovered the inadequacies of INEC," Mr Jonathan said.

Mr Jonathan said despite the fact that he surrendered crush for a large number of individual standards he had long held, he was significantly more aware of past expectations of the United States knowledge that Nigeria would break separated, and also a notorious remark by Mr Buhari that mutts and primates would be "absorbed blood" if 2015 races did not go the manner in which he wanted.

"I realized what was coming the day preceding I called General Muhammadu Buhari. I had writes about the surveys around the nation. It was clear the outcomes were not going to support me," Mr Jonathan said. "There were arrangement of issues with card perusers, coming about because of broad specialized hitches prompting the non-uniform application all through the nation."

"Notwithstanding, I was heading towards harmony. Ceasing the decision on casting a ballot day would have been similar to exploding a nuclear bomb," he said.

Mr Jonathan said soon after he completed the process of casting a ballot on March 28, he left Bayelsa for Abuja to screen whatever is left of the activity from March 29 until the point that he made concession approach March 31.

The previous president additionally made reference to places he anticipated that savagery would break out had he deferred in ringing settle the race.

"The nation was strained. I needed to accomplish something. I could never again sit tight for the examination of conclusive outcomes. The weight on the nation was substantial.

"In Lagos, individuals were prepared to blast free in the city and in the North, the stage was set for imagined savagery. One of my gathering's specialists at the INEC National Collation Center in Abuja, Elder Godsday Orubebe in the long run got into a warmed contention with the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega.






That further brought the pressure up in the nation. Everybody was expecting the more terrible. I realized the time had come to drench the pressure," he said.

Mr Jonathan recorded previous Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, previous Attorney-General Bello Adoke, previous Minister of Aviation Osita Chidoka, previous Chief Justice of Nigeria Mohammed Bello and his residential undertakings right hand Waripamowei Dudafa as being among those present the minute he put his concession call at the State House, Abuja.

Mr Jonathan scored 12,853,162 (44.96 percent) to be crushed by Mr Buhari, who surveyed 15,424,921 (53.96 percent).

A representative for INEC did not quickly return demands looking for remarks Wednesday morning.

In his book, INEC was by all account not the only factor Mr Jonathan considered in charge of his thrashing. He faulted previous U.S. President Barack Obama, and additionally some neighborhood lawmakers with whom he dropped out in front of the decision.