Mohammed Adoke, former minister
of justice and attorney-general of the federation, has spoken about the roles
played by allies of former President Goodluck Jonathan in making him concede
the 2015 election.
In an interview with Premium
Times, Adoke said Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, Jonathan’s former special adviser on
domestic affairs, took the lead role in convincing the former president to
accept the outcome of the election.
Jonathan, who lost to Muhammadu
Buhari, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had called to
congratulate his opponent before the final results were announced.
Adoke said while some close aides
of Jonathan advised him to concede the election, some others kicked against it.
He said it was while some of them
were contemplating on how to meet the former president to urge him to concede
defeat that Dafuda took the lead.
“The president was visibly
agitated like any other person would be; no president wants to be defeated
because that is a referendum on his tenure,” he said.
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“So, it was at that point, when
the president was still agitated that a fine young man, the special assistant
to the president on domestic matters, Dudafa shouted from the back and said
‘Daddy, we are leaving here on the 29th of May’.
“That gave us the impetus to now
approach the president; myself, Osita and Dudafa. We stooped before him and
started counselling him; we said Mr President what do you want to be remembered
for? So, he stood up crisply, went to his study and placed the call to
President Buhari to make the concession.”
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Adoke also spoke of how Patience
Jonathan, wife of the former president, abused him when her husband’s defeat
was imminent.
He said he remained loyal to
Jonathan, even when some of those in the administration then “were contributing
money” for Buhari’s campaign.
“It is true that I was abused by
the president’s wife. This happened on the 30th, a day before the concession,”
he said.
“I don’t blame the president’s
wife. I respect her as a person and I appreciate the fact that she voiced out
her frustration and anger at me.
“That was better than those who
pretend to be friends but would go to the president to say ‘Your attorney
general is not with you; your attorney general is an APC member; he has
sympathy for President Buhari. He is a Buhari boy’.
“In any case, most of those who
were talking were the same people who contributed money to Buhari’s campaign.
I, Mohammed Bello Adoke, never contributed money to Buhari’s campaign.”
Adoke made some revelations about
the trial of Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the Code of Conduct Tribunal
(CCT).
He said a lawyer close to Tinubu
played a huge role in the trial.
“Let me clarify this issue very
well. Bola Tinubu’s trial took place, it was his case with Code of Conduct
Tribunal. It was a very unfortunate thing. But what most people don’t know is
that a lot of people who claimed to be close to Bola Tinubu, a particular human
rights lawyer, was the one that engineered that trial,” he said.
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