The most business-minded of the southern elite generally back President Goodluck Jonathan from the Niger Delta; their northern counterparts generally back ex-military leader General Muhammadu Buhari from Katsina in the far north; and the more reform-minded back the former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu...
The six states of south-west Nigeria may determine the national elections for President Goodluck Jonathan whose People’s Democratic Party lost much of its following in the region under its previous leaders...
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...
Vol 52 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré who insisted that the AU stick to its position of backing Ouattara as the legitimate winner of November’s elections clashed at the Summit with Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 52 No 3)...
Political violence in the Niger Delta is escalating in the run-up to the April elections threatening to plunge President Goodluck Jonathan’s power base into chaos again and compromising both oil production and public safety...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
That meeting pitted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (who backs Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) as the Ivorian election winner) against South African President Jacob Zuma (who sees a strong French hand behind the campaign against Laurent Gbagbo)...
Rivalry between two former loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party in his home state of Bayelsa presages fierce confrontations before April's elections...
President Goodluck Jonathan clinched the presidential nomination of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on 14 January with an unexpected 77% of the votes...
Goodluck Jonathan has yet to persuade Nigeria that he is a national rather than a Niger Delta leader...
Within hours of the Ivorian Conseil Constitutionnel (led by Gbagbo’s allies) overturning the results issued by the Commission Electorale Indépendante (CEI dominated by oppositionists) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened an emergency meeting of West African heads of state at Abuja airport to agree a strategy...
President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...
