Goodluck Jonathan says Guinea-Bissau's president basically faked a military takeover to stop the election results from getting announced. The former Nigerian leader was monitoring the vote with the West African Elders Forum, and he thinks Umaro Sissoco Embaló staged the whole thing because the president himself broke the coup news before any soldiers even spoke up. Jonathan pointed out that real military coups don't let overthrown leaders do media interviews while supposedly under arrest.
Election results from all nine regions were ready to drop when Embaló suddenly claimed he got detained, but Jonathan says nobody actually got arrested. He wants ECOWAS and the African Union to force the release of the vote tallies since international observers already have access to the numbers, and he compared the situation to the messy 2011-2014 period when soldiers were literally slapping prime ministers around.
Election results from all nine regions were ready to drop when Embaló suddenly claimed he got detained, but Jonathan says nobody actually got arrested. He wants ECOWAS and the African Union to force the release of the vote tallies since international observers already have access to the numbers, and he compared the situation to the messy 2011-2014 period when soldiers were literally slapping prime ministers around.
