"Buhari's Government Harrassing My Family" - Jonathan

Bryant

Former President Goodluck Jonathan
believes that his family is being hounded
by the President Muhammadu Buhari
administration.
He said he lost the 2015 election
because he was betrayed by the former
National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu
Muazu and some Northern leaders in the
party.
Jonathan, who made his feelings known
in a book, “Against The Run of Play”,
written by the Chairman of ThisDay
Editorial Board, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi,
said Buhari could still fight corruption
using a different style.
He said: “I feel sad about the way my
family is being hounded.”
“Society is like a building. You build it
one block at a time. If every president
decides to go in to dismantle what his
predecessor did, society will never make
progress. I expected President Buhari to
correct whatever mistakes I may have
made and then carry on from there.
“But a situation in which people go into
exile for political reasons is not good for
us.”
“His style of fighting corruption is
different from mine and since most
Nigerians apparently prefer his style, it is
okay. There are steps you take that will
help in retrieving ill-gotten wealth and
punish offenders while restoring
confidence in the system. But there are
also things you can do to damage the
system.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) got the court to
freeze $5,842,316.66 (about N1.7billion)
belonging to Mrs Patience Jonathan in
Skye Bank. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun
on April 6 unfreezed the account. The
EFCC appealed but yesterday withdrew
its application for a stay of execution of
the judgment.
The Presidency declined to react to
former president’s claim on the anti-
graft crusade.
Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi
Adesina told The Nation that he could
not comment on the contents of a book
he has not read.
On the 2015 poll, Jonathan said: “I felt
really betrayed by the result coming from
some northern states. Perhaps for ethnic
purposes, even security agents colluded
with the opposition to come up with
spurious results against me. You saw the
way the Inspector General of Police, a
man I appointed, suddenly turned
himself into the ADC to Buhari
immediately after the election.”
“How could we have lost Ondo, Benue
and Plateau states if our people were
committed to the cause? If you examine
the results, you will see a pattern: in
places where ordinarily we were strong,
our supporters did not show enough
commitment to mobilise the voters.”
“What happened was very sad not for
me as a person, but for our democracy.”
“Take, for instance, the PDP National
Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu. I believe
he joined in the conspiracy against me.
For reasons best known to him, he
helped to sabotage the election in favour
of the opposition