Goodluck Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria, has described the challenges he faced as vice president while residing in the Presidential Villa.
Jonathan described what happened between him and other northerners during the time that his former employer, Umar Yar’Adua, was dealing with illness in an interview with the Rainbow Book Club about his biography, “My Transition Hours.”
He claimed that there were plots to remove him from the Villa in order to prevent the South from having a chance to succeed Yar’Adua.
Following the “North-South, Christian-Muslim divide,” the former Nigerian leader claimed that tensions were high in the nation at the time. According to him, “I was hearing about a coup every day.”
He disclosed that several friends persuaded Yar’Adua to leave the Presidential Villa for his own safety while he was abroad because to his worsening health.
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According to Jonathan, he ignored the advise and chose to remain in the Presidential Villa, regardless of the result.
There was a time when I was still the vice president and they hadn’t even changed the Doctrine of Necessity when some of my friends came and told me, ‘No, you don’t have to sleep here. I invite you to stay at my guest house.
I replied, ‘No.’ The State House is where I’ll remain. If someone wants to kill me, it would be better if they did it in the State House so that Nigerians would know they did it there. “They know I haven’t done anything wrong,” he stated.
Yesufu, Ezekwesili, and others storm court, Natasha
