Though President Goodluck Jonathan has been commended
for his show of sportsmanship in the just concluded presidential elections,
many do not know what informed his decision to congratulate his opponent,
General Muhammadu Buhari. Information available to The Beam by a highly placed
source in Abuja revealed that it was a phone call by the Secretary. General of
the United Nations, Mr. Ban ki Moon that save the day.
We reliably gathered that Ban Ki Moon had called
former President Olusegun Obasanjo and urged him to reach him to alert the
President of a plot by some influential ex-Generals to convince him not to
accept defeat as the results were being announced by Prof. Attahiru Jega, the
Chairman of INEC.
The UN scribe was said to have sought Obasanjo's help
since he was unable to speak with Jonathan directly as his mobile phone may
have been with his security aides.
Obasanjo had declined, saying that he was not welcomed
at Aso Rock for the role he played in supporting Buhari against the president.
He, therefore urged Ban Ki Moon to call on General Gowon who is said to be very
close to the president and could easily gain access to him. Ban Ki Moon quickly
called Gowon, who at that point was also in Abuja. Gowon was said to have
quickly made way to Aso Rock where he sought to see the President in private.
Jonathan who was monitoring the results of the
election with some of his aides at that time, got up, and went into a private
room with Gowon. The former Head of State was said to have called Ban Ki Moon
and quickly handed over the phone to the president.
The UN Secretary General quickly alerted Jonathan of
the plot to have himself and Buhari killed in order to pave way for a Military
take over, probably by the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh. According to
him, those who had advised him not to hand over power to Buhari were those
responsible for the plot.
Apart from the plot, Ban Ki Moon was said to have
revealed to the President how the money in the Dedicated Crude Account was
shared by his foot soldiers under the guise that they were going to use the
money for Jonathan's reelection bid. He also confirmed to the President that
the US Government was already in possession of details of where each of the
recipients had stashed away the money in foreign accounts. Jonathan was said to
have been jolted by this revelations.
According to our source, the UN scribe advised
Jonathan against being used by the cabal who wanted to seize power through the barrel,
as he also will be killed in the process.
At this point, Jonathan put a call through to Buhari
and congratulated him for his victory even though the results of three states
were yet to be announced by Jega.
Immediately the news was aired as a breaking news on
television, it was said that Gen. Babangida and Chief. Edwin Clark put calls to
Mrs. Jonathan, informing her of her husband's action, which according to them
had dealt a major blow on their plan. At this point, the First Lady quickly
rushed to confront her husband on why he put a call to Buhari.
Jonathan was quoted to have asked her, "haven't
we lost?” It was then she broke down in tears. The President who was shocked
that there was a conspiracy to assassinate him queried the wife if it were
better that he would be assassinated than to hand over peacefully.
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