Tag: Jonathan
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2015 elections: Why Obama turned against Jonathan – Reno Omokri
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has explained why former President of the United States America, USA, Barrack Obama pitched his tent against the former Nigerian leader in the 2015 presidential elections. According to him, Jonathan’s anti-homosexuality stance which was demonstrated through his signing of the Same Sex Prohibition Bill of 2013 into…
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Secession agitation: Jonathan’s defeat bigger threat than Biafra – Amaechi
…Says Nigeria can never break up The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday said the defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential elections by President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was “a bigger threat than Biafra”. Amaechi said Nigeria would have plunged into another civil war in 2015,…
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Jonathan’s aide releases new book, ‘Facts versus Fiction’
…Says ‘it contains suppressed facts about my presidency’ Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s aide, Reno Omokri, has released his much awaited book detailing ex-Presideent Jonathan’s activities in office in his five years reign as the Commander-In-Chief of the most populous black nation on earth. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the former Nigerian leader had promised to write…
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Insurgency: PDP slams APC, says ‘Jonathan bought weapons Buhari uses in fighting Boko Haram’
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying it fought insurgency with more tactics and manpower than the incumbent administration of the APC is currently doing. The party noted specifically that the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration is fighting Boko Haram with weapons bought by former President Goodluck Jonathan…
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Democracy: Reps hail Jonathan, says he acted like ‘a true African leader’
It was indeed a surprising moment of showering encomiums on former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in the House of Representatives for willingly relinquishing power to his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2015 after a keenly contested election. The reps noted that Jonathan’s action as helped in stabilising the country feeble and nascent…
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Jonathan rejected 2015 election results after congratulating Buhari – El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Tuesday accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of rejecting the 2015 elections results after calling to congratulate the winner, President Muhammadu Buhari. El-Rufai spoke in response to the former president’s reply to his (El-Rufai’s) accusation that he (Jonathan) distributed N2 billion Ecological Fund to only PDP states during his…
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Malabu Oil deal: Adoke sues Malami, says ‘I acted in Jonathan’s directives’
Former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), who is facing corruption charges, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare his prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, illegal. In the suit asking the court to determine the constitutionality of a serving minister exercising executive power through a presidential…
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Ecological fund: ‘El-Rufai is an incurable liar’ says Jonathan
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement credited to Kaduna State governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai where he said ‘”What President Goodluck Jonathan did was to take N2bn each from the Ecological Fund and gave to some PDP states. Any PDP state that was not his friend, like Kano and Kwara, didn’t get.” A…
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N3bn fraud: Jonathan’s godson, George Turnah, forfeits mansion, other properties to EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confiscated a mansion and some other properties allegedly belonging to George Turnah, an ally to former President Goodluck Jonathan. Turnah is currently standing trial for an alleged N3bn fraud. The anti-graft agency also froze about seven bank accounts through which the suspect, Turnah, allegedly received billions of…
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N2bn Ecological Fund: ACN, APGA, ANPP got nothing from Jonathan – El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan gave the two billion naira ecological fund to each state under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ignored states under the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP in 2013.…