The paper says even at the last minute, there was a power
tussle, where one force fought to prevent the other from making the president
hold on to power for as long as necessary.
"The western world, according to available information,
keyed into the Buhari presidency project months before the election and the
refusal to sell arms to Nigeria to fight the Boko Haram insurgency by
Washington was said to be mainly predicated on the likelihood of Jonathan’s
administration using same to quell possible civil disobedience if he
manipulated the results to remain in power.
"With political forces in the nation led by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo reportedly concluded on getting him out at all
cost, the western world, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom,
were said to have been persuaded into the project on two main planks;
corruption and insecurity.
"Settled that Jonathan’s administration had been
underwhelming in performance in those two critical areas and convinced that the
incumbent was bent on retaining his job, the international coalition allegedly
undermined his administration as much as possible, with allies elsewhere,
including Africa, also allegedly brought into the Jonathan-must-go project.
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