Goodluck Jonathan Commends Gambian President Jammeh, For surrendering to Defeat

Former president Goodluck Jonathan has commended President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia for surrendering to defeat after he lost to Mr. Adama Barrow.

Goodluck Jonathan Remembers Yar'adua 6 Years After

 

Former President Goodluck Jonathan today took to his Facebook page to remember former late president Yar'Adua in a touching message.
 

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died of pericarditis on the 5th of May, 2010.

Jonathan Hails Shagari on 91st Birthday

 

 

Former Nigeria President, Goodluck Jonathan has greeted the nation’s first executive president, Shehu Shagari who clocks 91 on Thursday.

In his congratulatory message, Jonathan said the second republic president’s long-standing commitment to peace and development would continue to inspire many Nigerians to offer their best to the nation.

“We Will Not Abandon Jonathan’s Great Ideas”, Says Amaechi as He Inspects “GEJ Rails”

 

 

 

Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says the current administration will not “abandon the good ideas” of previous governments, including that of former president, Goodluck Jonathan. Amaechi said this at Idu, Abuja, on Thursday, while inspecting the Abuja-Kaduna Rail project along with the contractors, China Civil Engineering Construction Company.

INC Condemns Kidnap Of Jonathan’s Foster Father, Tasks Govt On Security

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has condemned the abduction of 72-year-old foster father of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inegite Jonathan.

Chief Inegite was first kidnapped from his home in Otueke in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in February 2015 at the end of Jonathan’s tenure.

Jonathan Bought Substandard Weapons to Fight Terror War – Federal Government

Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture

The Federal Government has said whatever weapons that were procured by the Goodluck Jonathan Administration for the military to prosecute the war against terrorism were substandard and could not have been responsible for the string of successes recorded by the military in recent times.

In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described as unfortunate and unsubstantiated the statement credited to former President Goodluck Jonathan attributing the recent successes in the war to the weapons allegedly bought by his Administration that were delivered after he had left office.

Buhari Will Probe Jonathan if Guilty of Arms Deal – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has stated that former president Goodluck Jonathan will be probed if implicated in the arms deal scandal.

Jonathan had during a world press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, faulted the claim by Mohammed that over 15 governors under the past government were corrupt.

“As for the Information Minister (Lai Muhammed), you quoted; I was not president in 2006 but in 2010. He said about 15 former governors of states

PDP Didn’t Pay us a Dime to Support Jonathan – Umeh

 

 

Former chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, has disclosed that their ‘political romance’ with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last presidential election, did not yield the party any kobo.

The party chieftain was reacting to the reports that some other political parties including the Social Democratic Party, SDP and Accord Party, collected N100 million each to support the PDP during the presidential election.

According to him, nobody collected a kobo on behalf of APGA for the support given the PDP in the last presidential election.

Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Umeh, the party’s senatorial candidate in the forthcoming Anambra Central re-run election ruled out the participation of the immediate past senator, Uche Ekwunife in the election, noting that she cannot participate in the same election on the platform of two different political parties.

I Have Proven to Nigerians That My Political Ambition is Not Worth Anyone’s Blood – Jonathan

 

 

 

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that by honourably handing over power to his successor, Muhammadu Buhari, he has proven that election can be conducted without bloodshed.

The immediate past leader did the unexpected when he called to congratulate his opponent, Buhari over the outcome of the March 28 presidential election.

Reacting to The Afrcian Sun Times Man of the Year award conferred on him by the international magazine, the Otuoke-born politician said he remained eternally grateful to Nigerians for standing by him, before, during and after the election.

He wrote on his Facebook post Monday night:

“I thank The African Sun Times for naming me as its International Person of the year, 2015. I am indeed humbled by this honour. When I think about it, I understand why this medium may have thought me worthy of such an honour. However, I believe that my people, the Nigerian people, are more deserving of this honour.

Jonathan Did Not Give His Ministers Any Exit Bonanza – Former Minister of National Planning

There are strong indications that 14 ministers who served under the Goodluck Jonathan administration will not receive any Severance package by the Muhammadu Buhari led regime.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has said that it will adhere to the implementation of the terms of appointment, adding that the ex-ministers did not qualify for the package because they spent less than two years in office

Those ministers affected are ; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos)-Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II; Mr Kenneth Kobani (Rivers)-Minister of State for Trade and Investment; Patricia Akwashiki (Nasarawa)-Minister of Information; Nicholas Akise Ada (Benue)- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; Augustine Akobundu (Abia)- Minister of State for Defence; Fidelis Nwankwo (Ebonyi)-Minister of State for Health; Hauwa Lawan (Jigawa)-Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs and Senator Joel Danlami Ikenya (Taraba)-Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr Benjamin Osita Chidoka (Aviation); ex-Governor Ibrahim Shekarau (Minister of Education); Steve Oru (Minister for the Niger Delta); Prince Clement Adeyeye (Minister of State for Works); and Abdul Bulama (Minister of Science and Technology) and Dr. Abubakar Olanrewaju Suleiman(National Planning).

There’re Plans to Kill Buhari –Fr. Mbaka

 

 Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka

 

Fiery Enugu Catholic priest, and founder, Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, in a New Year sermon on Friday said there are plans by unnamed people to assassinate President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said many people are plotting to kill the President because of his campaign against corruption.


He said, “I am not a sycophant, but I want to tell you that so far God is happy and he who God has blessed none can curse.

“Many people are planning to kill Buhari – there are many plans on how to eliminate his life so that corruption will continue, so that embezzlement will continue.

Biafra: Kanu’s Handwritten Statement Apologising to Buhari, Jonathan 

Leader of the Independent People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, wrote the letter in which he apologised for unsavory remarks he made about President Muhammadu Buhari, ex-president Goodluck Jonathan and Igbo leaders, contrary to claims by IPOB and his lawyer.

The PUNCH had reported on Wednesday that Kanu had expressed regret for referring to President Muhammadu Buhari as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile in his radio broadcasts.

IPOB, his family, and lawyer, Vincent Obetta, however, denied that he apologised to anyone.

Obetta claimed that the Federal Government was only trying undermine the 48-year-old and his cause.

“The government is using every instrument to puncture what we are doing,” he said.



Despite apologising for casting aspersions “on the person and the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Kanu was adamant that he would continue to fight for Biafra.

He said IPOB’s secessionist agenda was informed by the “incessant hardship, lack of holistic development in the socio-economic landscape of Nigeria, lack of youth employment, corruption in high offices and economic regression.”

He added that the agitation by IPOB, which, according to him, was founded in London in 2012 by a group of people from the South-South and South-East regions of the country, was in line with the United Nations Charter on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ratified by African countries, including Nigeria.

Kanu, who said he intended to write a private letter to Buhari to express his apology to the President, also apologised to former President Goodluck Jonathan and Igbo elders for “some uncomplimentary things” he said about them. Documents obtained from the court, however, showed that the apology was contained in a handwritten statement by the Biafran leader. Credit to: Punch Nig News

Goodluck Jonathan, Adesina, Buhari Named Among 100 Most Influential Africans   

Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammadu Buhari, the Chairman, Board of Directors, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu and 97 others have been named among the “100 most influential Africans of 2015.”

 

 

The list published by pan African magazine, “New African” presented Africa’s definitive power list and profiled the continent’s top game changers in eight different fields: politics (22); public office (4); arts and culture (21);business (21); civil society (11); technology(9); media (7); and sports (5).

Goodluck Jonathan made the list for the significant role he played in Nigeria’s 2015 elections which saw the first successful transfer of power from a ruling government to an opposition party in Nigeria. Goodluck Jonathan’s humility in defeat ensured that Nigeria avoided a post-election crisis.

Other Nigerians recognized included: 

 

EFCC to Summon Former President, Jonathan

There are indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, may summon the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, to explain what he knows about the ongoing probe into the scandalous arms procurement deal.

The ant-graft agency is said to be contemplating writing the former President because his name has consistently been mentioned during the interrogation of some suspects, The Punch reports.

Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), is currently being prosecuted by the EFCC for illegally disbursing to top politicians funds meant for the procurement of arms for the military’s fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-east. This, Daskui had alleged was in line with the directive of Jonathan, who was the then President.

EFCC To Invite Okonjo-Iweala, Others

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that it will invite top officials in the Goodluck Jonathan administration that had a hand in the disbursement of funds related to the arms purchase.

According to Vanguard Newspapers, a top EFCC source said top on the list is the former Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy in the last Administration, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

This is coming on the heels of the anti-graft agency’s resolve to re-open the case of the former Rivers state Governor, Dr. Peter Odili.

Reports say Odili allegedly received N100m from the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The former Governor has since debunked saying he collected N100m from the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, Dr Adamu Muazu and not Dasuki.

Okonjo-Iweala. was accused of illegally disbursing funds to the former National Security Adviser.

Source: Leadership Online News