Former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said former president Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election because he was not competent enough to continue as a Nigerian leader.
Oshiomhole spoke in a conversation with The Interview, an Abuja based monthly publication.
According to him, the former President never demonstrated the competence expected from him as even the most basic things were not adequately done.
He added that Jonathan also admitted that he did not do much for the south-south region.
The former governor said, “If you follow my commentary two, three years into his government, it was clear that even the most basic things were not properly done. Competence that was expected was not there,” Oshiomhole said.
“The level of fairness was not there. And even if you were to talk about the sentiment of servicing the geo-political zones, the south-south had nothing to boast of.
“Even the road to Yenagoa didn’t show that a president came from that area. I have travelled across Nigeria, so we in the south cannot say this is our dividend.
“He himself agreed that he didn’t do much for the south-south. Actually, that was not the real question. The real question was: where did he do?
“Also, I remember asking the Chief of Army Staff the day the President wanted to postpone the election (from February 14), I said, ‘Two weeks ago, you said the Armed Forces was ready for the election. Now, you are saying Boko Haram is controlling many local governments. Your PDP took over 774 local governments, now you have ceded territories to Boko Haram.’
“So I was convinced and I arrived at a conclusion that Nigeria was in great danger if we didn’t effect a change in the political leadership. That was how we parted ways.
“I remember he, Jonathan, called me about four days to the election over an advert I did. In the advert, I showed the pictures of the immigration recruitment they purported to have done in a stadium.
“That was the height of incompetence – that the federal government would defraud the unemployed people, ask them to pay some fees to attract a federal job.”
But Oshiomhole said the President Muhammadu Buhari was performing despite the obvious challenges.