Senator Adoke who spoke with journalists in Abuja, described it as an institutional conspiracy, adding that the high level of betrayal suffered by Jonathan was unprecedented.
He said, “I maintain that there is a complete institutional conspiracy to shift the government from the PDP to the APC at all cost. Virtually everybody participated in this movement across the political parties."
He said all who contested election on the ticket of PDP, on March 28, suffered same fate with Jonathan.
The senator explained that everybody including non politicians were involved in the movement to get the PDP out of power at all cost, hence no one complained about the issue of faulty card readers and other flaws recorded on the day of the election.
“Infact ranking PDP stalwarts participated in this grand design to effect a change in governance. Even when the ordinary people knew the election was not fair, they looked the other way because everybody was united to make sure that PDP was out of government.
“That can happen in the life of any country where people had enough of a particular ruling party and desperately needed a change without minding how the change would come.
“In my own opinion, this is what happened in Nigeria. We just pray that it is for good.”
Adoke claimed that he was winning his election up to the midnight of Sunday, March 29, and only waiting for the announcement which did not come until Monday evening.
“Let me say categorically that I lost the election due to the active collaboration of the PDP agents, that is what made it very sad.
"My best friends, who I appointed as my agent at the collation centres all sold out. Today they can not look at me in the face, some of them had even run away. It was a massive conspiracy to get me out of office.
“One of my friends is riding the car that I bought for my mother. His case is that of a betrayal that I will never forget in my life. The degree of conspiracy that I encountered was such that cannot adequately addressed by any court of law.”
“Infact ranking PDP stalwarts participated in this grand design to effect a change in governance. Even when the ordinary people knew the election was not fair, they looked the other way because everybody was united to make sure that PDP was out of government.
“That can happen in the life of any country where people had enough of a particular ruling party and desperately needed a change without minding how the change would come.
“In my own opinion, this is what happened in Nigeria. We just pray that it is for good.”
Adoke claimed that he was winning his election up to the midnight of Sunday, March 29, and only waiting for the announcement which did not come until Monday evening.
“Let me say categorically that I lost the election due to the active collaboration of the PDP agents, that is what made it very sad.
"My best friends, who I appointed as my agent at the collation centres all sold out. Today they can not look at me in the face, some of them had even run away. It was a massive conspiracy to get me out of office.
“One of my friends is riding the car that I bought for my mother. His case is that of a betrayal that I will never forget in my life. The degree of conspiracy that I encountered was such that cannot adequately addressed by any court of law.”
