Former President Goodluck Jonathan has charged African parliamentarians to rise above narrow partisan considerations and be committed to pursuing the public good. Jonathan gave the advice in his remarks on Thursday in Banjul, Gambia, at the opening session of a two-day capacity building workshop for members of the Gambian parliament, organised by The Goodluck Jonathan
GEJ Returns To Bamako With ECOWAS Mediation Team For Consultations
Back in Bamako with members of the ECOWAS mediation team for consultations with the Transition authorities, we held functional talks with President of the Transition H.E. Col. Assimi Goita and other senior government officials. The team noted the actions taken towards a viable transition timetable and the promise of the Malian authorities to remain committed
Jonathan’s names missing as APC lists 23 presidential hopefuls for screening
Former President Goodluck Jonathan is not on the list of presidential hopefuls expected to be screened by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In April 2022, after supporters besieged his Abuja residence to ask him to contest the 2023 presidential election, Jonathan had not given a definite response. “You are calling me to come and declare
Court Declares Jonathan Eligible To Contest Presidential Election
The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election. The Presiding Judge, Justice Isa Hamma Dashen, gave the judgement on Friday. He also held that Jonathan’s right to vie for the office of president again cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.
Jonathan Finally Joins Ruling APC In Bayelsa Ward
President Goodluck Jonathan has formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to recontest for President in 2023. This comes hours after disowning a nomination form purportedly procured for him by a northern group. Following reports that a coalition of northern socio-cultural groups, basically of Fulani extraction, purchased N100 million nomination
Goodluck Jonathan Bags International appointment amidst 2023 election brouhaha
Amid the controversy surrounding whether the former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan will contest the 2023 presidency, he has secured an international appointment with European Corporate Council. Jonathan was appointed to the international advisory board of the European Corporate Council on Africa and the Middle East (ECAM Council), PM News reports. ECAM Council is a non-profit
Goodluck Jonathan reportedly rejects APC Presidential form
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress purchased for him on Monday by a group of his supporters from the north. Dr Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form for him broke that the former did not
BREAKING: Ex-President, Jonathan, Escapes Death, Two Aides Dead
Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, was on Wednesday involved in a fatal auto crash that killed two of his aides, a report by People’s Gazzate said. According to sources, the convoy was involved in an accident while returning from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to his residence in the Federal Capital Territory. Although Jonathan was
Goodluck Jonathan Celebrates His 63rd Birthday (images)
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan GCFR, GCON (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari, marking the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost re-election