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‘Adoke a Useless Man for Not Disqualifying Buhari in 2015’ – Patience Jonathan

Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, right, arrive for the inauguration ceremony for South African president Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday May, 24, 2014. Zuma was sworn in to serve a second term after the country's fifth democratic elections. (AP Photo/Mujahid Safodien, Pool) ORG XMIT: XDF125

Emerging details of what transpired after the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015 presidential election indicate that former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan described Mohammed Bello Adoke, then Attorney-General of the Federation as a “useless man” for not helping to disqualify candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

In his forthcoming book, ‘On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria’, set for release November 30th, 2017, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi — who served as minister under Jonathan from 2011-2014 — alleged that Olusegun Mimiko, then-governor of Ondo state, wanted Buhari, the APC candidate, prosecuted for “certificate forgery” and disqualified from contesting in the election.

But Adoke, who was considered one of the most powerful ministers under Jonathan, argued against it, maintaining that there was no legal basis to nullify Buhari’s candidacy.

The APC candidate went on to win the election which saw the defeat of an incumbent president for the first time in Nigeria, but Patience Jonathan gave a piece of her mind to Adoke two days after the poll.

According to snippets from the book obtained by TheCable, Abdullahi described Jonathan as a man who had “a distinct aversion for taking any action that could be regarded as unlawful or illegal”.

This, he said, made the attorney-general central to most of the decisions the former president had to make.

Abdullahi wrote: “Two days after the election, Adoke had gone to see the president in respect of the appointment of a new chief judge for the FCT. While waiting in the outer room, the First Lady walked in. He rose to greet her. But she took one long look at him and hissed: ‘Useless man. You betrayed my husband. Now that he has lost the election, you are happy. It was the same Attorney General that Bayo Ojo used to disqualify Atiku for Obasanjo (in 2007). It was the same office that (Mike) Aondoakaa used to make dead man (Umaru Musa Yar’Adua) to rule Nigeria. But when it comes to my husband, you will be shouting, constitution, constitution.’”

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