David Mark reveals how Jonathan and Tambuwal fell off politically

Former Senate President, David Mark has
revealed how ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
and his wife, Patience turned the Governor
Aminu Tambuwal into a political foe.
Mark made the comment in the book titled
‘ Against the Run of Play’ , written by the chairman
of Thisday newspapers editorial board, Segun
Adeniyi.

Mark specifically said the former president’s wife
was suspicious of those around her husband.
David Mark said Jonathan and his wife never trusted
Tambuwal
According to him, Jonathan lost the support of
key members of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), who either went to the opposition or
discreetly worked
Jonathan’s relationship with Tambuwal was
frosty because he had emerged as a speaker
against the wish of the then ruling party.
The PDP's hierarchy then favoured Honourable
Mulikat Akande from Osun state, but Tambuwal
had majority backing from the lower house
members.
Tambuwal, as speaker, eventually defected from
the PDP to the then opposition – the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Mark said he tried to defrost the relationship, but
Tambuwal was still not trusted by Jonathan and
his wife.
Jonathan was said to have relied on some people around him,
who fed him with wrong information always
His words: “I took him (Tambuwal) and Emeka
(Ihedioha) to the president for a meeting where they gave
assurances that they would cooperate and work with the
government. But there was always a concern from the
Jonathan camp that Tambuwal was an ambitious
politician.”
The former senate president also said that the
former first lady had fears that he was nursing a
presidential ambition as well.
“I guess she (Patience) had the same fear about me even
when she never said it to my face. She once accosted
Senator Joy Emordi to say, ‘Joy, I hear you are the
manager of David Mark Presidential Campaign
Organisation’, which was a baseless accusation.
“I had to meet the president to clarify issues with him. So, I
would say it was President Jonathan and his wife who
radicalised Tambuwal and turned him into a political foe.”

Meanwhile, Mark blamed Jonathan for his failure
to win the 2015 general elections. According to
the Benue-born retired Army colonel, he hinted
to Jonathan about the conspiracy against him in
the north before he lost the 2015 presidential
elections.
He further stated that he saw the defeat coming
and had pointed out the unrealistic voting
projections made by the party about the north to
the former president.