Immediate past Senate President of Nigeria, David Mark, has spoken up about how he tried to warn Goodluck Jonathan about a northern conspiracy.
David Mark and Goodluck Jonathan
Senator David Mark, a former Senate President, has said that ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan was too blind to see during the 2015 general elections.
Senator mark said he warned Jonathan of the conspiracy against him in the north before he lost the 2015 presidential elections.
Mark said this in the book, “Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria," written by the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi.
He said that he saw the defeat coming and had pointed out the unrealistic voting projections made by the party about the North to the former president and the conspiracy against him but he was not taken seriously.
According to him, “I saw it and at different times, I pointed out to him and the party that the projections being made by some people around the president about what the voting pattern in the north would were wrong.
“I could see the conspiracy and the gang-up building up in the north against the aspiration of Jonathan but my voice was drowned out by those who took it for granted that a sitting president, and one from PDP, could not lose.
“Some people were deceiving the president with the kind of false scenarios they were painting for him. The VP could see the conspiracy but I don’t know how much influence he had on the campaign. Why Jonathan couldn’t see it until it was too late is what I find difficult to understand.”
