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‘Facts versus fiction: The true story of the Jonathan years, Chibok, 2015 and the conspiracies’, a book written by Reno Omokri, an aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, is on Amazon’s bestseller list.

The book is currently 23rd on the ‘politics and social sciences’ category and 51,286th in the general bestseller category on Amazon.

It is also 72nd and 75th on the ‘history’ and ‘religion and spirituality’ categories respectively.

Published on May 29, the book chronicles some of the key moments during the Jonathan-led administration especially the kidnap of the Chibok girls as well as the 2015 general elections.

The book had generated some controversies on coming to public consciousness in May.

In it, Omokri said from his conversation with Matthew Page, a former intelligence analyst on Nigeria in the US state department, he learned that the Barack Obama administration felt let down by the Jonathan administration.

The issues Obama had with Jonathan, according to the book, include the alleged abuse of human rights in the north-east, Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, who the Obama administration felt should be removed and the same-sex marriage (prohibition) bill of 2013.

He also wrote that Page told him that he sat in meetings involving 12 northern governors who were invited to the US, as once stated by Babangida Aliyu, a former Niger state governor, in Segun Adeniyi’s ‘Against the Run of Play’.

He said some of the northern governors spoke vehemently against Jonathan at the meetings.

Omokri is a broadcaster and host of ‘Transformations With Reno Omokri’, a Christian TV show broadcast on San Francisco’s KTLN and Detroit’s Impact Network.