Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

But rotation at the top is more delicate: in 2011 Goodluck Jonathan decided to contest arguing that the idea of a 'gentleman's agreement' that the Presidency should return to the north following the death in office of Umaru Yar'Adua had no standing in law...

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and fellow Ecowas mediators had already proposed a unity government – 50% chosen by the president 30% by the opposition and 20% by civil society – and reestablishment of the Constitutional Court on a fresh basis as well as an enquiry both into the killings of protestors by security forces between 10 and 12 July...

He also questions Nigeria's conduct of arbitration under President Buhari's predecessor Goodluck Jonathan...

Under Goodluck Jonathan's presidency the government's legal strategy had been to dispute the circumstances around the original contract award and then the seat of arbitration liability and quantum of damages in court while also seeking to settle with P&ID which P&ID rebuffed...

Mohammed Adoke and Diezani Allison-Madueke were appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Petroleum Resources respectively by Goodluck Jonathan in 2010...

It was the leaking of a letter from Sanusi to President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 stating that some US$50 billion of oil receipts were missing from the federation accounts that undermined the Jonathan government's credibility beyond redemption...

Instead of addressing the matter Jonathan established a self-serving investigating panel and suspended Sanusi (AC Vol 55 No 1 Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game)...

Although President Buhari claims he has introduced reforms to stop the defence procurement scams which thrived under his immediate predecessor President Goodluck Jonathan contracting practices in the army remain unreformed and prone to corruption one senior officer told Africa Confidential...

The south-west has produced every southern president save for five years (2010-15) of Goodluck Jonathan from the south-south...

In Bayelsa former president Goodluck Jonathan junked his PDP membership loyalties and threw his weight behind the ruling APC in the 16 November elections...

The African Union whose mission whose mission was headed by Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan unsurprisingly endorsed the polls...

Once closely linked with the PDP having benefited from contracts under the Goodluck Jonathan government Tompolo takes a pragmatic view of the Buhari government...

A holdover from the Goodluck Jonathan era Emefiele has become the main cheerleader for Buhari-nomics: defending the naira and multiple exchange rates using reserves if necessary keeping the IMF at a distance cajoling banks to lend to productive farms and factories and banning the use of foreign exchange at the lower official rates for imports of food grown in Nigeria (AC Vol 60 No 13 The rise of Godwin Emefiele)...

Malami is also at the centre of a second legal drama as prosecutors in Milan wind up their case against Shell ENI and a string of executives accused of colluding with officials and using corrupt methods under the Goodluck Jonathan government to acquire OPL245 the licence to exploit one of Africa's richest oil fields...