Nigeria: President Jonathan and the Missteps

31 March 2013
opinion

President Goodluck Jonathan has mismanaged many occasions to bring about change, says Prince Kayode Olowu

President Goodluck Jonathan is indeed a lucky man. He ascended all the way to the presidency with a base built more on opposition to the status quo than devotion to his own political standing. He got the popular mandate on February 9, 2010, when the whole country bestowed on him the post of Acting President, and on April 16, 2011, when he was returned in a watershed presidential election.

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