Paying over US$130 million a year  the contract was signed during Diezani Allison-Madueke's tenure as petroleum minister in Goodluck Jonathan's presidency...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 61 No 16 | 
            - MALI
- ECOWAS
	     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...
	 
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	      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...
	 
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            Vol 60 No 21 | 
            - MOZAMBIQUE
	     The African Union  whose mission whose mission was headed by Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan  unsurprisingly endorsed the polls...
	 
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	     Once closely linked with the PDP  having benefited from contracts under the Goodluck Jonathan government  Tompolo takes a pragmatic view of the Buhari government...