Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that he considered stopping the 2015 general elections over widespread failures of the INEC card reader system
In a recent interview, Jonathan disclosed that the device rejected him, his wife, and his mother at their polling unit, while voters in the North were reportedly allowed to cast ballots without proper accreditation.
“In 2015, the INEC card reader rejected many voters in the South, including me and my wife, causing frustration. Meanwhile in the North, instructions allowed everyone to vote without accreditation. So you really see something not quite right. I could have stopped the election,” Jonathan said.
He described the period as highly tense, citing deep North-South and Christian-Muslim divisions, as well as daily rumors of a coup. Jonathan added that his life was under threat but insisted on remaining in the State House.
“If anybody wants to kill me, it’s better you kill me in the State House so Nigerians will know that they assassinated me there. I had not committed any offense,” he said.
The former president explained that he avoided guest houses for safety, fearing any attack outside the State House could be falsely blamed on others. “If I decided to go and stay in a guest house and wherever I’m going, security people would know. And if people go and kill me there, they will now say Indian girls brought apples to kill me. And I wouldn’t want those kind of stories,” Jonathan added.
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