A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Jackson Ude, has tasked all aggrieved members of the party to sheath their swords and accept as an act of God, the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively. Ude who is...
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress for emerging as 2023 presidential candidates of their parties. Jonathan, in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Ikechukwu Eze, on...
The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital 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. Justice Dashen also held that Jonathan’s right to vie for the...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has faulted the ongoing political party primaries across the country because it lacks standard practice and the process has failed Jonathan stated this on Thursday during a book launch titled “Political Party Governance” authored by Dr. Mohammed Wakil, a former Minister of State for Power....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been urged to adopt former President Goodluck Jonathan as its consensus candidate of the party, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The National Coordinator of Save Nigeria Ambassador Project (SNAP), Mr Jazeel Ibrahim, made the call at a...
Barely 48 hours after disassociating himself from moves by some groups to draft him into the 2023 presidential race, former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally made up his mind to vie for the top post. Nigeria is set to go to the polls next year in a crowded contest...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the N100 million All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms bought for him to contest 2023 presidential election by nomadic Fulani pastoralists and Almajiri communities. Mr Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan’s Media Adviser in a statement on Monday, said it was...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Niger Delta group, known as the Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan, to join the 2023 presidential race under the platform of APC. The National Secretary, Amb. Amain Cottrell, who...
The Youths Network for Nigeria Union (YNNU) has given former president Goodluck Jonathan a seven-day ultimatum to obtain the All Progressives Congress (APC) membership card at his Otuoke Ward. Chairman of YNNU, Mr Ibrahim Saiki, gave the ultimatum on Wednesday at a rally in Abuja to urge Jonathan to...
A clergyman, Felix Aluko, says former President Goodluck Jonathan will be returned to Aso Rock, Abuja if he decides to vie for the 2023 Presidential Election. Aluko, the senior pastor of the Resurrected Assembly (GROM), made the prophetic declaration on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that Jonathan would return...
A political pressure group, Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPD), has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt former president Goodluck Jonathan, as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr Ralph Okorie, who made the call...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he is yet to decide whether or not to yield to pressure by different groups urging him to contest the 2023 presidential election. He said this on Friday in Abuja when his committee of friends and some youths from across the country visited him...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited his Security Aide, Inspector Gambo Joseph, who was injured in the Wednesday’s accident at the vicinity of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. Jonathan expressed joy that the injured officer, Joseph was responding to treatment and recovering fast. He also stated that the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Project ReNew Nigeria, a group supporting the presidential aspiration of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State, has sympathied with former President Goodluck Jonathan over the ghastly accident that claimed the lives of two policemen in his convoy. In a statement released to...
After the successful conduct of its national convention weekend, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is now faced with one major task of searching for a presidential candidate that will fly the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election. With the election of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, former Nasarawa State...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Monrovia advised ECOWAS to deploy the use of technology fully in electoral processes to conduct free and fair elections in member states. Jonathan gave the advice while speaking as one of the panelists at the on-going First Extra Ordinary Session of the...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday allayed fears of Nigeria’s disintegration, saying the country will still remain. He stated this during the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Council of the WISE strategic retreat and planning workshop which held in Lagos. “When...
Most Nigerians do not know how actually President Buhari’s political misfortunes suddenly changed from a three-time serial loser to a dramatic winner in 2015. The incipient seed of this victory was sown in April, 2011, shortly after the declaration of the presidential election results that pronounced incumbent President Goodluck...
Mr Japhtah Yekorogha, a cousin of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, abducted on Jan. 24, has regained his freedom from his kidnappers. The announcement was contained in a statement by Mr Azibaola Robert, the younger brother to the kidnapped victim in Yenagoa on Monday. The statement signed by Mr Austin Ekeinde,...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged Nigerian leaders to value the interest of every section of the country in order to build a united nation devoid of agitation, disunity and disenchantment. Jonathan spoke when he led members of the 1981 set of the University of Port Harcourt alumni Association...