{"id":6040,"date":"2017-11-29T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2017-11-29T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:39:53","slug":"former-jonathans-minister-apc-spokesman-abdulahi-writes-book-on-former-presidenyp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Former Jonathan&#8217;s Minister, APC spokesman, Abdulahi, writes book on former President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Julius Ogunro<\/strong>, Special Adviser to Bolaji Abdullahi.<br \/>\nBolaji Abdullahi, a former Minister of Youths and Sports Development under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, will launch his book \u2018On A Platter Of Gold: How Jonathan Won And Lost Nigeria\u2019 on Thursday, November 30, 2017, at the Shehu Musa Yar\u2019 Adua Centre in Nigeria\u2019s capital, Abuja.<br \/>\nThe book launch which is scheduled for 10am will attract frontline political actors, journalists, academia and a cross-section of Nigerians and the international community.<br \/>\nThe Chief Host and Host of the book launch are the President of the Senate, H.E. Dr. Bukola Saraki, CON and the Governor of Kwara State, H.E. Abdulfatah Ahmed respectively. Chairman of the occasion is the Governor of Borno State, H.E. Kashim Shettima. The Father of the day is the Emir of Ilorin, HRH. Dr. Ibrahim Gambari.<br \/>\nThe Chief Presenter is CEO and publisher of Ovation International, Chief Dele Momodu while the book reviewers are Prof. Adigun Agbaje and Mr. Azubuike Ishiekwene.<br \/>\nThe book will go on sale nationwide after the launch.<br \/>\nBolaji Abdullahi, a former columnist and editor with Thisday Newspaper is currently the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<br \/>\nAccording to Bolaji Abdullahi, the book is an exclusive account of the \u201cmaking and the unmaking\u201d of Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s administration. The book gives revelations of the intrigues that surrounded the 2015 presidential election and its aftermath.<br \/>\n\u201cOn a Platter of Gold is part history, part political thriller, which answers many of the often-asked questions about Jonathan\u2019s incredible rise to the highest political office in the land and his unprecedented electoral defeat in 2015,\u201d Bolaji Abdullahi stated.<br \/>\nThe book is introduced as follows:<br \/>\n\u201cWas Goodluck Jonathan weak and clueless, as his traducers have claimed? Or \u2013 as his supporters have alleged \u2013 was he just a victim of vicious conspiracies by an entitled cabal that would stop at nothing to bring down this \u2018intruder\u2019 to power?<br \/>\n\u201dFrom an unknown university teacher, Goodluck Jonathan rose to become President of Africa\u2019s largest democracy, in less than a decade -most astonishingly, without winning a single vote in his name. In contesting the 2011 presidential election, he declared that growing up as the son of a fisherman in the creeks of Nigeria\u2019s Niger Delta, he had no shoes. This message resonated with millions of Nigerians. \u201cIf I can make it, then you can as well,\u201d he had declared. He went on to win with the highest majority vote ever recorded in the nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julius Ogunro, Special Adviser to Bolaji Abdullahi. Bolaji Abdullahi, a former Minister of Youths and Sports Development under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, will launch his book \u2018On A Platter Of Gold: How Jonathan Won And Lost Nigeria\u2019 on Thursday, November 30, 2017, at the Shehu Musa Yar\u2019 Adua Centre in Nigeria\u2019s capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}