MKO Abiola’s Wife Slams Jonathan Over “Manipulation Of Facts” In New Book

Mrs Zainab Duke-Abiola, one of the widows of late business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola has slammed ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s new book.

Recall that Jonathan launched, “My Transition Hours”, a book about his administration, to mark his 61st birthday in Abuja on Tuesday.

But reacting to the book which has been generating a flurry of comments, Duke-Abiola said itwas an attempt at “monumental manipulation of historical facts and figures” by Jonathan.

In a Thursday statement, she said, “The book is a monumental manipulation of historical facts and figures,” Duke-Abiola said.

“Though President Jonathan conceded defeat to President Muhammadu Buhari after he lost the elections, he remained fixated on the presidency and did not want to believe that Nigerian voters swept him out of power because of his gross incompetence and ineptitude.

“For the records, Jonathan lost the election because he made himself the sole candidate of the PDP despite his abysmal failure in governance. He directed the party to print only one presidential nomination Form 001, which I paid for, but because of his blind ambition, he confiscated my presidential nomination Form 001 and went into the political battlefield in borrowed robes, thereby meeting his political Waterloo accordingly.”

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She further described as “ludicrous” Jonathan’s claims that ex-US President Barack Obama and ex-British Prime Minister, David Cameron were involved in the effort to oust him in 2015.

According to her, the ex-president should be asking for forgiveness from God and Nigerians as his administration condemned the country to severe security and humanitarian crises.

“I think the only option left for Jonathan is to plead with God and Nigerians for forgiveness and until we forgive him, he should remain in his purgatory of lethargy. No amount of write-up can erase the fact that he took this great nation for granted.

“The indeprecabilis question for Jonathan to answer is What did he do with the power Nigerians entrusted him with? Did he ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians or even the marginalized Niger Deltans? Did he even put drinking water in his own village? Are Jonathan’s village mansions accessible by road? Why does he charter helicopters to travel to his own village?

“Jonathan said corruption is not stealing and thereafter flagged off the looting spree of the treasury, which ultimately plunged Nigeria into recession when he left. Jonathan will go down in history as Nigeria’s worst political mistake,” the statement further read.