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...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
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...
Governors under EFCC scrutiny include: James Ibori (Delta); Lucky Igbinedion (Edo); Ayo Fayose (Ekiti); Bonnie Haruna (Adamawa); Gbenga Daniel (Ogun); Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun); Adamu Aleiro (Kebbi); Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto); Saminu Ibrahim Turaki (Jigawa); Ahmad Makarfi (Kaduna); Goodluck Jonathan (Bayelsa); Chimaraoke Nnamani (Enugu); Achike Udenwa (Imo); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi); and Bola Tinubu (Lagos)...
Bayelsa: Goodluck Jonathan (PDP)...
Panel members complained about interference in their negotiations by the Bayelsa authorities headed by the newly appointed Governor Goodluck Jonathan (replacing the disgraced and gaoled Diepreye Alamieyeseigha)...
Goodluck Jonathan While Jonathan's Bayelsa government was floundering those close to Delta Governor Ibori were quietly confident that the hostages would soon be released...
Alamieyeseigha's successor Goodluck Jonathan was flown down from Abuja under heavy security...