Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan is at war with his own People's Democratic Party: five state governors have defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) as have 37 members of parliament depriving the PDP of a majority (AC Vol 54 No 25 Presidential letter bombs and Vol 55 No 1 Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game)...

This year started with a row between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo; and it is ending with a second and bigger row between the two...

The leaking this week of two damning letters to President Goodluck Jonathan was surely no coincidence and fires a powerful broadside against his government and his plans to run for a second term...

Now President Goodluck Jonathan (from Bayelsa State in the Delta) and Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke (from neighbouring Rivers State) are struggling to limit the damage of catastrophic revenue losses in the industry which generates 90% of foreign exchange earnings...

The defection of five state governors from his party to the new opposition alliance on 26 November can hardly have surprised President Goodluck Jonathan who has been procrastinating over the growing political crisis for the last four months...

No official reason was given for the postponement of President Goodluck Jonathan's budget speech to the National Assembly to 19 November...

Although the PDP sees Anambra and the south-east as its political heartland under the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan the APC has mobilised its leading lights such as former military leader General Muhammadu Buhari and the ex-Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu...

It has taken six weeks for President Goodluck Jonathan to regain the political initiative after seven state governors walked out of his party's national conference at the end of August demanding radical change or threatening an alliance with the opposition (AC Vol 54 No 19 Punching out the PDP)...

The declared aim of President Goodluck Jonathan's 23-29 October trip to Israel was for him to join another 30 000 Nigerians on a Christian pilgrimage and to preside over signing a Bilateral Air Services Agreement with the government...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has suggested there could a mechanism to suspend the ICC case against Kenyatta during his presidential term...