How I warned Jonathan of northern conspiracy that led to his defeat – David Mark

How I warned Jonathan of northern conspiracy that led to his defeat – David Mark

- Ex-Senate president David Mark blames former president Goodluck Jonathan for losing the 2015 presidential elections

- He said he told Jonathan of the conspiracy against him in the north before he lost the 2015 presidential elections

- Mark said some people were deceived the president by painting false scenarios for him

Former Senate President David Mark has blamed ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for his failure to win the 2015 general elections.

Senator Mark said that he had hinted to Jonathan about the conspiracy against him in the north before he lost the 2015 presidential elections.

How I warned Jonathan of Northern conspiracy that led to his defeat – David Mark
David Mark

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The Punch reports that Mark said this in a book titled “Against the Run of Play’’ where he wondered how an incumbent president could lose such an election in Nigeria.

The book was written by the Chairman of ThisDay's editorial board Olusegun Adeniyi who also interviewed Mark.

According to Mark, he saw the defeat coming and had pointed out the unrealistic voting projections made by the party about the north to the former president.

He also pointed out the conspiracy against him but Jonathan did not take him seriously.

He said:“I saw it and at different times, I pointed out to him and the party that the projections being made by some people around the president about what the voting pattern in the north would were wrong.

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“I could see the conspiracy and the gang-up building up in the north against the aspiration of Jonathan but my voice was drowned out by those who took it for granted that a sitting president, and one from PDP, could not lose.

“Some people were deceiving the president with the kind of false scenarios they were painting for him.

David Mark on why Jonathan lost 2015 elections
Jonathan lost because he did not listen to Mark's advices.

''The VP could see the conspiracy but I don’t know how much influence he had on the campaign. Why Jonathan couldn’t see it until it was too late is what I find difficult to understand."

Legit.ng recalls that Professor Attahiru Jega responded to Goodluck Jonathan’s statement that the 2015 general election was flawed due to the different votes recorded in the election.

Jonathan made this claim in the same book Against the Run of Play by Adeniyi.

Watch this Legit.ng TV video of a Nigerian on the street saying categorically that ex-president Goodluck Jonathan was never a bad choice for Nigeria.

Source: Legit.ng

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