‘Jonathan Made Us Delay Anti-gay Bill Because Of Obama’s Re-election’ – David Mark

David Mark, former senate president, says former President Goodluck Jonathan made the national get together defer passing the counter gay bill due to concerns previous US President Barack Obama raised at the time he was looking for re-race. 

Stamp made this claim in 'Against the Run of Play', a book which accounts how Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential race, composed by Olusegun Adeniyi, a columnist and top rated writer.

The previous president's association with the Obama organisation was at first "blushing" before it wound up plainly chilly.

In the book, Jonathan censured Obama for his appointive thrashing, saying in 2014 it turned out to be certain that the previous US president needed a change of government in Nigeria. This was after he had marked into law a bill restricting same-sex marriage.

Check revealed to Adeniyi that Jonathan created a deferral in the section of the bill due to Obama.

    “President Jonathan called me that President Obama had sent to him a message of concerns about the bill. That was in 2012 at a time Obama was seeking a second term in office,” he said.

    “President Jonathan asked what could be done and I told him that not only was I committed to the passage of the bill that was also the position of the national assembly.

    “I said the only thing I could do was delay its passage till after the American presidential election. But I assured him that the same-sex marriage was not something we would legalise in Nigeria.

    “We delayed it for a few months after that, but we eventually passed the bill into law and President Jonathan had to assent.”

The national get together under Mark passed the same-sex marriage dis allowance charge in May 2013. Furthermore, Jonathan marked it into law on 13 January, 2014.

The law endorses 14 years detainment for those indicted homosexuality.