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During the political crisis brought on by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s protracted illness that forced him to leave the country for medical reasons, former President Goodluck Jonathan claimed he would have been killed and that he was rumored to have died after eating apples from Indian ladies.

Then, Yar’Adua’s managers circumvented the law’s provision that Jonathan, a vice president, transmit a letter to the national assembly when the current president is missing for a predetermined amount of time so that the vice might take over as acting president.

At the National Assembly’s instigation, the situation led to a constitutional crisis that was ultimately addressed by the concept of necessity.

The latter appointed Jonathan as the interim president in accordance with Section 145 of the Constitution.

In an interview with Rainbow Book Club, the former president recounted the turbulent time, saying that there were rumors that he was going to be slain in the Villa at one point, and a friend asked him to stay at his guest home, but he refused.

He claimed that he refused to do so in order to prevent a scenario in which he would be killed outside the Villa and his death would be described similarly to that of former Military Head of State Sani Abacha.

“I remember one day, I was still vice president, they had not even moved the doctrine of necessity then and some of my friends came and said, ‘No, you don’t have to sleep here. You have to come and sleep in my guest house.

“I said, ‘No.’ I will stay 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 in the state house.

“They know I have not committed any offence. If I go and stay in your guest house and people kill me there, they will now say Indian girls brought apples to kill me. And I wouldn’t want that kind of story”, he narrated.

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