“When YarAdua was too ill to govern, he wrote a letter to hand over power to me but one of his aides refuse to deliver the letter. Nigeria had no president, and no commander in chief. I was hearing about coup and some people felt I could be killed.

They advised me to move to a guest house but I said no, if they (coup plotters) want to kill me, let them kill me inside the state house. Before I will go to a guest house and get killed then the story will be that some Indian girls came to give me apple in a hotel” -Goodluck Jonathan on his time as VP.