Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
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Sep 17, 2026
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
Olu Jacobs won a string of prestigious trophies, including the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor and the Industry Merit Award for Outstanding Achievements.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
In 2011, he was given the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic by the then President Goodluck Jonathan.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
But rumors that Jacobs had died emerged in 2021 until he turned up at that year's Africa International Film Festival, where he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar described Jacobs as a cultural icon.
Thom HartmannHOST
I have seen this over and over again.
Thom HartmannHOST
This is like, you know, what happened in 2014 in Nigeria when when good luck, Jonathan, the president, you know, when one of his people pointed out that billions of dollars of oil revenue had gone missing.
Thom HartmannHOST
And good luck, Jonathan.
Thom HartmannHOST
President Jonathan fired him and said, oh, no, it's just it's just a ghost.
Thom HartmannHOST
You know, the money is a phantom was the word he used.
Thom HartmannHOST
And, you know, later on there was an actual audit and it turned out that good luck Jonathan had apparently made off with $1.48 billion.
Thom HartmannHOST
Now, I don't have any proof that Donald Trump walked off with this money.
Thom HartmannHOST
or gave it to members of his family.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were on television everywhere.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So during Good Luck Jonathan, I mean, I started supporting Good Luck Jonathan as deputy governor of Bayasa State.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I was one of the people that prophesied that we'll see him in Abuja.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he came to Abuja.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then he won the election.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was in his presidential campaign council.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was the only bishop in Good Luck Jonathan's presidential campaign council.
Leonard CowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I took campaigns everywhere.
Thom HartmannHOST
For example, in 2014, Nigeria's central bank governor, Lamido Sensui, accidentally revealed to his Senate that roughly $20 billion in oil revenue had never made it into the national treasury.
Thom HartmannHOST
President Goodluck Jonathan's response was to fire him and call the money a phantom.
Thom HartmannHOST
When PricewaterhouseCoopers finally audited the books, it found at least $1.48 billion was simply gone.
Thom HartmannHOST
I've done international relief work in some of the most corrupt nations in the world, been offered bribes and threatened for not taking them, and the pattern I'm seeing here is eerily familiar.
Ayomide TayoHOST
Uh-huh
Osagie AlongeHOST
... was the Nollywood artist who did the video for Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.
Ayomide TayoHOST
Yeah, but put it up.
Osagie AlongeHOST
Genevieve was there.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
The word that surprised me is that He now elumerated that he did it for Peter Obi.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
He now elumerated that he did it for Goodluck Jonathan.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
And I now went historical.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
I went to research.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
It was the year that he supported the, he nominated and appointed Goodluck Jonathan as the assertive candidate.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
Maybe he even communicated with me.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
That was the year Goodluck Jonathan lost the election.
Godwin EtakibuebuHOST
Or Peter B? He is a part of Peter B and everything.
Hillary NorocaHOST
But in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari defeated the then president.
Hillary NorocaHOST
Muhammadu Buhari defeated then President Goodluck Jonathan.
Hillary NorocaHOST
But he didn't do it alone.
Hillary NorocaHOST
He did it after trying three other times.
David HundeyinGUEST
That was a very unspectacular statement.
David HundeyinGUEST
And that statement was reported in this international and mainstream media space as President Goodluck Jonathan claims that stealing is not corruption.
David HundeyinGUEST
And that became a whole headline.
David HundeyinGUEST
You can Google it.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
His nickname is Tombolo.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
Tombolo, um, started this Tantinta Security firm after he received amnesty from, uh, Jonathan Goodluck's government.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
Obviously, you know, uh, just like, uh, the Jan six guys, their slips were wiped clean.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
And here is the, is the problem with this particular issue.
Esther Nwankwo SalukeHOST
Talk to me.
speaker_28AUDIENCE
Do you know if, uh, Jonathan is, uh, is, uh, running come 2027?
Esther Nwankwo SalukeHOST
Do I know if Jonathan is running?
speaker_28AUDIENCE
Yes.
Esther Nwankwo SalukeHOST
He has announced his intentions to run.
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