David Hundeyin, a distinguished investigative journalist, has shed light on the “GEJ Must Go” campaign, revealing it as a foreign intelligence operation led by the United States with the intent to sway Nigerian politics.
Hundeyin contends that local actors, unknowingly serving as “useful idiots,” played a significant role in this scheme. The operation aimed to depose Goodluck Jonathan and install President Buhari, whom Hundeyin describes as “illiterate.” He further insinuates that this operation is ultimately designed to favor drug baron Tinubu, thereby posing serious threats to Nigeria’s stability and sovereignty.
He points fingers at foreign powers, especially the United States, for masterminding a covert operation to manipulate Nigeria’s political outcomes. Hundeyin posits that the removal of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 was not merely a grassroots movement but a carefully orchestrated operation by Washington DC.
Hundeyin draws attention to the economic decline and social unrest that ensued following Jonathan’s exit, highlighting the adverse effects of foreign interference in Nigeria’s affairs.
He narrates, “I left the UK and returned to Nigeria to kickstart my career in March 2013. Most of the Nigerian international students I studied with had already returned since 2012. Almost all of us who returned began planning to flee from Nigeria in 2016. There was only one significant change in Nigeria between 2013 and 2016. We know what or who it was.”
Hundeyin identifies former President Goodluck Jonathan as the trigger for the mass exodus of Nigerian international students. He adds, “But yeah, ‘GEJ was a terrible president. If you keep repeating it to yourself 9 years later, despite being contradicted by all existing data, that will somehow make it true.’”
Hundeyin doesn’t shy away from expressing his views, “I don’t care who has any stake in preserving this colossal falsehood because none of you feeds me, and I will speak freely – ‘GEJ must go’ was a foreign intelligence operation run out of Washington DC by the US State Department. Their doctrine perceived Nigeria’s economic growth and burgeoning partnership with China as a strategic threat to American economic and military interests on the continent.”
Hundeyin also accuses the Obama administration of blatant interference in the 2015 election cycle. He refers to Obama’s video encouraging Nigerians to “vote for the next chapter,” Michelle Obama’s involvement in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, and John Kerry’s visit to Nigeria to meet with the opposition.
He concludes, “The local players on the ground who participated in the marketing and political campaign to oust Goodluck Jonathan and replace him with the Illiterate were merely useful idiots – yes, that includes you reading this with your guilty conscience. If the shoe fits, I am definitely referring to you. You were nothing more than a pawn in a geopolitical struggle between 2 of the Countries That Actually Matter.”
Hundeyin’s audacious commentary has ignited a fiery debate on the influence of foreign powers in shaping Nigeria’s political landscape and the unintended fallout of their actions.
