Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said Atiku Abubakar was right to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari's reelection in February, saying it would be "unfair" to compare Mr Abubakar's situation to the 2015 election in which he (Mr Jonathan) accepted defeat.
Mr Jonathan said the fundamentals of 2015 election, which saw him become Nigeria's first incumbent leader to accept election defeat, were "very different" from the 2019 elections.
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