Reno Omokri reveals those who conspired to remove Jonathan from power

Former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonthan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has revealed those who conspired to remove Jonathan from power in 2015.

Omokri alleged that former United States president, Barrack Obama moved against his former principal because of his refusal to support the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender) bill.

The ex-presidential aide was reacting to the recent revelations made by some prominent Nigerians in the book, Against the Run of Play, written by Olusegun Adeniyi.

He explained his own side of the story on the controversy surrounding the ouster of Jonathan from power in a yet-to-be-released book entitled, Facts Versus Fiction: (The True Story of Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and The Conspiracies).

Omokri accused former governors Admiral Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto and Kashim Shettima of Borno of betraying Jonathan in the White House.

He made reference to a statement credited to the former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyi in the book that series of meetings twelve Northern governors had in the U.S. in March 2014.

He queried that, “Why did the Obama administration organize those meetings? What occurred at those meetings? Who said what, where, when and why? The answer to those questions will help throw light on whether or not there was a conspiracy by the Obama administration (not the United States) to remove then President Jonathan from office.

“I tracked down Mr. Matthew T. Page who until his resignation in 2016 was the U.S. State Department’s top intelligence analyst on Nigeria. Matthew Page also served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa with the National Intelligence Council. He sat in on each of the meetings the twelve Northern Nigerian governors attended, beginning from their meetings at the United States Institute for Peace and thereafter their meetings at the State Department.

“According to Mr. Page, the meetings were attended by twelve Northern governors of whom the most vocal was the then governor of Adamawa state, Admiral Murtala Nyako. Others at the meetings who voiced anti Jonathan sentiments were then Kano governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto and Kashim Shettima of Borno. The then governors of Kwara and Kogi were in attendance but were non-committal.

“At that meeting, Admiral Murtala Nyako read out a memo he had written itemizing the case against Jonathan. He was so openly and almost violently against the Jonathan administration in his speech that he had to be openly rebuked at the meeting by the then Nigerian ambassador to the US, Ambassador Adebowale Adefuye of blessed memory.

“Admiral Nyako’s belligerence against the Jonathan administration was so venomous that it prompted a rebuttal from the Gombe state governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, who showed loyalty to the then Nigerian President. According to Mr. Page, this prompted most of the other Northern governors present to turn on him.

“That issue was a deal breaker for the Obama administration because of the strong support they had from the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender) community for Mr Obama’s re-election campaign of 2012.”