Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

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...

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...

PDP candidate Umaru Yar'Adua is narrowly favoured to win the presidency with his running mate Goodluck Jonathan the Governor of Bayelsa State (AC Vol 47 No 25)...

Opposition activists believe that even if Yar'Adua survives his surprise choice as running-mate Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan will not stay the course...

All three will have southern running mates: Yar’Adua has chosen Bayelsa Governor Goodluck Jonathan (who replaced the hapless Diepreye Alamieyeseigha now facing charges of grand corruption); Buhari has chosen veteran Igbo politician Ume Ezeoke; and Abubakar is set to choose Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu despite his reported distrust of Yoruba politicians...