Jonathan Was a Victim of Power Game - Rueben Abati

Former President Goodluck Jonathan's Senior Adviser on Media fires that former president was a victim of vicious propaganda from the opposition.


 
Reuben Abati

Dr. Reuben Abati, Former President Goodluck Jonathan's Senior Adviser on Media has said in his first major interview in the October/November edition of The Interview, that Jonathan was a "victim of power game".

He dismissed the belief in some quarters that Jonathan lost the 2015 Presidential election because he was incompetent and clueless. But said that the the former president was a victim of vicious propaganda from the opposition.

 

“All they could focus on was trying to discredit the president. They called him clueless; they said he was incompetent; they said he was a drunkard,” he remarked.

 

Abati went on to shed more light on the last days of Jonathan in the Aso Rock Villa, his own controversial retraction of the article against Buhari, the attitude of the moneybags who abandoned Jonathan in his moment of need, his relationship with former first lady, Patience Jonathan, and his love-hate drama with many of his passionate fans.

 

However, Mr. Femi Adesina, Senior Adviser to President Muhammad Buhari on media and publicity also featured in the coming edition of The Interview, expressed a different opinion, saying he knew Jonathan would lose and it didn't come to him as a surprise.

 

“If Jonathan had won the election, Nigeria would have shut down”, because he believe the government had run out of ideas. Adesina showed optimism for the new administration.

He spoke on Buhari’s style, the war on corruption and Boko Haram, the CBN’s policy of defending the naira, and his relationship with the president.