Bayelsa: How Jonathan Was Blackmailed To Work With Silva, APC – Sule Lamido

Immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido has alleged that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was blackmailed into supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate, David Lyon in the penultimate weekend election in Bayelsa State.

Lamido, a foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said it was illogical for Jonathan to back the candidate of the party which demonized him out of power but for blackmail.

He specifically asserted that the Muhammadu Buhari administration may have used issues from the controversial Malabo Oil deal to intimidate President Jonathan into surrender.

Lamido spoke in an interview with Sunday Sun.

“I can’t imagine Sylva and Jonathan being on the same frequency. It is something that I have never ever dreamt of in my life. Sylva  and Jonathan being on the same frequency with the wife against Dickson, because I know Dickson’s role under Jonathan’s government.

“I know what we all did together. But then, you see I have come to a conclusion that as far as Nigeria is concerned, we want to have a great nation, but then we have no benchmark.

“And so, in Bayelsa obviously we couldn’t have lost. But because Jonathan is very, very angry with Dickson, very, very angry with him, he was at ease to have aligned with Sylva , the very person he said would not run – there is something also. They are holding him by the balls. Because he (Jonathan) sure knows his problem with Buhari and with this government. And the issue of Malabo, I think,  played a key role, I said so.

“So, the election were won and lost by PDP. PDP history, PDP tradition and Jonathan were behind him. That I can say anywhere because the issue of Malabo is an issue I know very well. I had cause to discuss it with him. While he was the president and I was in office, I went and told him about it. I told him and I also gave a radio interview to an FM in Abuja, which Daily Triumph picked, where they said a minister under Jonathan got almost 150 million dollars Malabo scam.

“And when Reuben Abati came to debunk it or to abuse me, I went to Reuben Abati, I know what I am saying, can we go to the Villa, I discussed this with Jonathan. I told him about it. Let us go. What I am saying is that obviously because the leadership of the APC and the government are blackmailing Jonathan and I think I can say it anywhere that he traded this for his own freedom.

“Because I can’t imagine a former president selling his own state to the opposition – to the very party which called him names, which demonized him, which evilized him, called  him anything unprintable and even called his wife names because we as leaders  have no character, have no benchmarks, personal pains, personal anger prevent us from seeing the bigger picture. That was how Buhari came in and those who voted for him are screaming. All of them who voted him, what do they fear, EFCC.”

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