WHY I DID NOT ARREST AND
DETAIN BUHARI DURING MY
REIGN – JONATHAN SHOCKS
THE WORLD
NEWS | NOVEMBER 1, 2016 | BY ABU
In what appears like a criticism of his successor’s
selective anti-corruption war, and intolerance for
freedom of speech, former President, Goodluck
Jonathan, has tactically revealed why he did not
detain President Muhammadu Buhari, during his
reign.
Recall, that prior to the 2015 election, Buhari, the
then Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, had threatened violence, if the 2015
elections were rigged in favour of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
“If what happened in 2011 (alleged
rigging) should again happen in 2015, by
the grace of God, the dog and the baboon
would all be soaked in blood.’’ Buhari
had said.
Speaking at a dinner he attended in the United
States, on Saturday evening, Jonathan said, “under
my watch, not a single Nigerian was sent to prison,
because of anything they wrote, or said about me, or
the administration that I headed,”
He added that, “Nigeria had neither
political prisoners, nor political exile
under my administration.”
Jonathan, who was the keynote Speaker at the
Nigerian Lawyers Association’s Annual Dinner and
Merit Awards ceremony, held in New York,
mentioned some factors he considered to be his
administration’s democratic credentials.