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May 14, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Delta Militant Insists Goodluck Jonathan Run for President in 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan has refused to say whether he will run for the presidency in 2015, although many Nigerians expect he will. The current efforts among the opposition parties to come togethe…

A man walks past election posters for Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan in the Maryland district of the commercial capital Lagos April 16, 2011.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

May 21, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Stonewalls on Security Service Human Rights Abuses

President Jonathan delivered an important speech at the “Regional Summit on Security in Nigeria” held in Paris on May 17, 2014. Its worth a close reading because if provides the Jonathan administrati…

French President Francois Hollande (R) welcomes Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan as he arrives to attend the African Security Summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 17, 2014.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

January 21, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan Gets the PDP Nomination

As the Giant of Africa now turns its attention to country-wide presidential elections, the contest is shaping up to be dangerous and destabilizing, pitting a Christian candidate against a Muslim cand…

Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

October 17, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria’s Committee on Post-Election Violence Reports to President Jonathan

A policeman stands guard near a ballot box at a polling unit before the start of parliamentary election in Surulere district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 9, 2011. (Akintunde Akinleye/C…

Nigeria’s Committee on Post-Election Violence Reports to President Jonathan
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 3, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
“Hard for Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan Not To Run in 2015—But Can he Win?”

That was the title of my December 20, 2013 post. It appeared in the aftermath of former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s highly critical letter to Jonathan cataloging the latter’s political failures, th…

Voting 2015 Nigeria
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition