Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan in a series of tweets on Saturday reacted to ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book written by Segun Adeniyi. The former president says he will give a personal account of what happened in the 2015 presidential election soon.
In ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book which chronicles how Jonathan lost the 2015 election, the former president blamed former US President Barack Obama for his electoral defeat.
But in the book, some of the former president’s allies such as David Mark, former senate president, and Babangida Aliyu, former Niger state governor, put the blame for his loss on him and his wife, Patience.
However, Jonathan said the accounts of what transpired in the election by some respondents in the book were false.
Read the tweets:
(1) I have just read Segun Adeniyi’s new book, ‘Against the Run of Play’ which has so far enjoyed tremendous reviews in the media.
— Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan) April 29, 2017
(2) My take on it is that the book as presented contains many distorted claims on the 2015 Presidential election by many of the respondents
— Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan) April 29, 2017
(3) There will obviously be more books like that on this subject by concerned Nigerians.
— Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan) April 29, 2017
(4) However, I believe that at the right time, the main characters in the elections including myself
— Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan) April 29, 2017
(5) will come out with a true account of what transpired either in major interviews or books.
— Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan) April 29, 2017
