Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s immediate past President, says David Cameron, a former United Kingdom Prime Minister, is against him because he signed the Anti-Same sex Marraige Bill into law.
YaahooJournalist reports that the Ex-UK PM in his recently published memoir, ‘For the Record’, said Jonathan was “sleeping on the wheel” while terrorists were busy abducting schoolgirls in Chibok.
Cameron, who was in office at the time of the abduction, said British troops traced the location of some of the girls and offered to help but President Jonathan refused.
Reacting on Saturday, Jonathan said he came under almost unbearable pressure from the Cameron administration to pass legislation supporting LGBTQ Same Sex marriage in Nigeria.
According to him, “As such, on Monday, January 13, 2014, I signed the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill into law after the bill had been passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of Nigeria’s parliament, in line with the wishes of the Nigerian people.
“This happened shortly after a study of 39 nations around the world by the US Pew Research Centre came up with a finding which indicated that 98 per cent of Nigerians were opposed to the idea of gay marriage.
“Immediately after I took this patriotic action, my government came under almost unbearable pressure from Mr. Cameron, who reached me through envoys, and made subtle and not so subtle threats against me and my government.”
The former Nigerian President said meetings were held at the White House and at the Portcullis House in Parliament UK, with the then Nigerian opposition, All Progressives Congress, to disparage him, after he had signed the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill into law.
