In 2007 he bankrolled a substantial part of the campaign of the eventual President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...
Sir Peter Odili ex-Governor (1999-2007) of Rivers another oil-rich state was moments away from being nominated as a vice-presidential candidate when (insiders say) outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo struck his name out of the acceptance speech prepared for Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who went on to win the governing party’s presidential primary in December 2006...
It is said that the Okah family has detested Jonathan ever since he worked for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua visiting MEND leader Henry Okah in South Africa to urge him into the official amnesty programme in July 2009 only months before his arrest in Angola on arms-trafficking charges...
The most celebrated godfather and Governor James Ibori of Delta State won a privileged position for bankrolling Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential victory in 2007 but fled to Dubai when Goodluck Jonathan took over the presidency last May...
Maryam Yar’Adua daughter of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua lost her House of Representatives contest for Katsina to the CPC candidate Mohammed Tukur...
In 2007 even the victor the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua admitted the election was seriously flawed...
Opposition parties claim that over US$27 billion is missing from state accounts managed by the People’s Democratic Party government under President Goodluck Jonathan and his late predecessor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...
The amnesty that he and his late predecessor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua secured in the Niger Delta is coming apart; oil production and state revenues are falling (AC Vol 51 No 21 & AC Vol 52 No 23)...
In 2007 President Obasanjo's control of the Forum was critical in winning support for Umaru Yar'Adua's nomination...
Jonathan continued the amnesty policy initiated by his predecessor the late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and has been widely criticised for not consolidating it but exploiting the state patronage of former commanders in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)...
Under an amnesty during the presidency of the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua he was released in July 2009 and took refuge in South Africa...
