Former President Goodluck Jonathan blames Obama for 2015 election defeat

Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu Buhari, alleging the former US president headed a global conspiracy to get rid of him.
Jonathan made the allegations in a new book out on Friday called "Against The Run of Play", which documents how he became the first Nigerian incumbent head of state to lose an election.

He said Obama and his officials "made it very clear to me by their actions that they wanted a change of government in Nigeria and were ready to do anything to achieve that purpose".

"They even brought some naval ships into the Gulf of Guinea in the days preceding the election," he was quoted as saying in the 204-page book, by journalist Olusegun Adeniyi.

he alleged Obama influenced Britain's former prime minister David Cameron and the current French president Francois Hollande to work against him.
"I got on well with... Cameron but at some point, I noticed that the Americans were putting pressure on him and he had to join them against me," he said. "But I didn't realise how far President Obama was prepared to go to remove me until France caved in to the pressure from America."



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