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Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former president has refuted claims of ex-governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu in the 2015 elections, saying northern Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors did not work against him in the elections.<\/p>\n

Recall that ex-Niger state governor, Aliyu on Friday had stated that\u00a0PDP governors in northern states opposed Jonathan\u2019s bid for a second term <\/a><\/strong>because he reneged on their agreement not to seek another tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince this was against the grain of our earlier agreement in the party, and which we the governors in the north felt the North would have been shortchanged if Jonathan had succeeded, we rose stoutly to insist on the agreement we all had,\u201d he had stated.<\/p>\n

Following Aliyu’s claim which had gone viral, the former governor of Plateau state, Jonah Jang refuted the claim and disclosed that he was not part of northern PDP governors that worked against Jonathan.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the claim credited to the former Niger state governor, a former aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri on behalf of his principal said there was no agreement whether oral or written between Jonathan and PDP northern governors that he will not contest for a second term.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, Jonathan challenged the former Niger governor to name witnesses that witnessed the said agreement.<\/p>\n

The former president said Aliyu gave a different claim when he was asked to give reasons why he worked against him in Segun Adeniyi\u2019s book titled: \u201cAgainst the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was Defeated in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBabangida Aliyu is a pathetic fellow. He has become a broken record and, sadly, he feels that is the only way to remain relevant. Let me break his claim down for you in a way that it will be so crystal clear that he is lying,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no such agreement, whether written or oral. Since he says it was written, then let Mr. Babangida Aliyu<\/a> produce it. If he changes his statement and says it was not written after all, but actually verbal, then I challenge him to name witnesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Aliyu says the agreement the northern governors had with former President Jonathan was for him to finish off President Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s first term between May 6, 2010 and May 29, 2011, and then contest for only one term between May 29, 2011 and May 29, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is true, then how come former President Jonathan lost the votes of Niger State at the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primary of January 13, 2011?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow come, also, that former President Jonathan lost the actual presidential election, which held on April 16, 2011 to the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>, in Niger State?<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Muhammadu polled 652,574 votes to then President Jonathan\u2019s 321,429 in Niger State in 2011. He got more than twice the number of votes secured by former President Jonathan.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, even if we want to say for argument\u2019s sake that there was such an agreement, of which there was no such agreement, wouldn\u2019t Governor Babangida Aliyu have been expected to have kept to his side of the bargain?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that not only was there no such agreement, but Babangida Aliyu is such a perfidious character that does not even know that his current disposition contradicts his earlier statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, in Mr. Segun Adeniyi\u2019s book, Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President Was Defeated in Nigeria, published in 2017, Mr. Aliyu gave a completely different reason for working against former President Jonathan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Mr. Aliyu, the Obama administration had invited 12 governors from northern Nigeria to sound them out on their commitment to the plot to unseat the then President of Nigeria. In that book, the former Niger State governor said, The Americans had resolved not to support Jonathan. They just wanted to size us up for the level of commitment to regime change.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Aliyu revealed in that book that he was an unpatriotic individual, who held meetings with a foreign government to undermine his own home government. He basically admitted to treason. Now, how can such a fellow be taken seriously by people who believe in the unity of Nigeria?<\/p>\n

\u201cWitnesses at that meeting revealed that the statements made by then governors Aliyu and Murtala Nyako were so dangerous to Nigeria\u2019s unity that it prompted a strong rebuttal from Gombe state governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, who was also present.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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