Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Jonathan, was inaugurated as the President of Nigeria on February 10, 2010, under special parliamentary procedures, succeeding Umaru Musa Yar'Adua who was unable to carry out Presidential duties, hence his assumption of the office. Jonathan, the People's Democratic Party nominee, was a former university professor and a Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, an oil-rich state in the South-South geopolitical zone in Nigeria. His running mate, was Namadi Sambo, an erstwhile architect and former governor of Kaduna state, inaugurated as Vice President of Nigeria later on the 19th of May, 2010. The Jonathan Administration launched the
Goodluck Jonathan gone through the era of the strongman president. It did not solve any problem. For those who think corruption is fought with 'nerves', I hope they know what they are praying for." During his South African magistrate court trial on 2 May 2012, the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, insisted that President Jonathan masterminded the October 2010 Independence Day bombing. Okah told the court that President Jonathan and his aides organised the attacks in Abuja in a desperate political strategy to demonise political opponents, including former military President General Ibrahim