This they hope will encourage the presiding judges to annul the 2007 election of President Yar’Adua and his Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan and order fresh polls...
The return to violence after a few weeks' respite postpones once again Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan's much trumpeted plans for a Niger Delta peace summit; he now calls it a 'dialogue of stakeholders' instead...
’ Opponents in his native north believe Yar’Adua is likely to die in office leaving his deputy Goodluck Jonathan a former Governor of the southern Bayelsa State to complete his term...
The Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan inspires little confidence among power brokers from outside his own Niger Delta...
Powerbrokers in the north and south seem to agree that if Yar'Adua is pushed out then Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan an Ijaw from the Delta will not be allowed to replace him...
He is also rumoured to have good connections with the Nigerian political elite including the oil-to-commodities magnate Aliko Dangote and Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
The events cast yet more doubt over the Niger Delta conference planned by the new federal Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan which seeks to make peace between specific militant groups...
In fact he has largely delegated the matter to his Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan an Ijaw from Bayelsa who is not wildly popular among his own people (he is from a minority upstate sub-clan of the Ijaw) and disparaged by many of the political elite in Abuja...
A fortnight ago militants blew up Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan's house in Otueke his home village...
Rumours that incumbent Governor Goodluck Jonathan had been shot or put to flight flashed around the city...