Previous president, Goodluck Jonathan, has asserted that ex-US president, Barack Obama interfered in Nigeria's 2015 presidential race.
TheCable reports that in passages of his new book, 'The Transition Hours', Jonathan said Obama sent his secretary of state, John Kerry and made a video communicate to Nigerians in routes intended to impact the result of the decision against him.
Jonathan, who challenged under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost the race to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and surrendered while the last outcomes were yet to be reported.
“I can recall that President Obama sent his Secretary of State to Nigeria, a sovereign nation, to protest the rescheduling of the election. John Kerry arrived in Nigeria on Sunday January 25, 2015 and said ‘it’s imperative that these elections happen on time as scheduled’.
“How can the US Secretary of State know what is more important for Nigeria than Nigeria’s own government? How could they have expected us to conduct elections when Boko Haram controlled part of the North East and were killing and maiming Nigerians? Not even the assurance of the sanctity of the May 29, 2015 handover date could calm them down. In Nigeria, the constitution is very clear. No President can extend his tenure by one day.
“On March 23, 2015, President Obama himself took the unusual step of releasing a video message directly to Nigerians all but telling them how to vote. In that video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the ‘next chapter’ by their votes. Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the opposition to form a new government. The message was so condescending, it was as if Nigerians did not know what to do and needed an Obama to direct them.
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