Browsing: Dr. Goodluck Jonathan

The prominent members of the party met at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja for a meeting to that effect

Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate

The senator said Obasanjo’s letter was aimed at promoting himself as usual

The defection is coming a few days before President Buhari’s visit to the state

Jonathan said this on Friday during a meeting with the the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, and members of the party’s National Working Committee at the Jonathan Foundation in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State

Dagogo-Jack told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that Amaechi’s policies on the development of the state  could not be faulted

This, as Igali explained, is why Nigeria is yet to fully achieve steady supply, but credited former President Goodluck Jonathan for making the highest investments in power in Nigeria’s history

Obasanjo has a divine desire to remotely micro manage any elected Nigerian president

The former President and the group said a holistic and sincere implementation of the recommendations of the report on restructuring would encourage inter ethnic harmony and development in the country

MURIC and CAN have been engaged in a war of words over the alleged religionisation of Nigeria’s politics by CAN

It stands to reason therefore that whatever is done by those agents, lawfully and within the bounds of Presidential approval, are within the scope of the responsibility of the President. In other words, the President cannot pass the buck

Alison-Madueke, who was reacting to a story on the withdrawal of the money from the NNPC account, stated these in a statement by her Media Adviser, Clem Aguiyi.

I hate a nation or rather people who celebrate quietude at a time when disquiet is needed. I just don’t’ like a nation where bread and butter are the twin obstacle to free expression in a time of national trial.

Obasanjo had on Wednesday advised President Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019 considering the current situation in the country

The Ambassador, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said Jonathan, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 poll, is Nigeria’s poorest ex-president and may also occupy same position in Africa

Buhari, who spoke when he hosted chieftains of the APC to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said his emergence as president was as a result of the use of the Permanent Voter Cards

This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Governmental Affairs

Mark will be grilled on issues pertaining to the slush funds shared by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke, for the failed reelection bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan and another N2 billion allegedly paid into the account of the National Assembly during his tenure as the Senate president

Amaechi made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the Future Awards Africa held in Lagos on Saturday

“My worry is that President Buhari thought and probably still thinks corruption is stealing money, and the people stealing money are largely bureaucrats or government officials,” Bishop Kukah said, comparing the current approach of the President to his failed efforts in 1984 when he was Military Head of State