Please make corrections to my list below:
1. Wole Soyinka
Nigeria's only laureate and a major critic of the Jonathan administration, especially the handling of the Rivers state crisis that nearly swept off his favoured son, Amaechi and the handling of the Chibok girls saga. His opinions are highly sort in Nigeria and beyond and many believe that his disdain for the PDP helped swayed south-west( epecially the young and intellectuals) votes against President GEJ.
2. Enerst Shonekan
Former head of the Interim Government of Nigeria in 1993. He is believed to be a supporter of incumbent President GEJ and has never missed any high government function since Jonathan became President.
Senator-elect
and Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has advised
candidates of other political parties who were defeated in the...
The
National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has issued a very strong warning to some ambitious aides and
associates...
Pic
1: Prof Osinbajo pictured with Olamide, Kunle Afolayan, Dammy krane,
Gbenga Adeyinka , Yomi Fash Lanso. #HouseOfChangePic 2 : Prof Osinbajo
with...
Nigerian
celebrities no dey carry last. Ace comedian I Go Die alongside his
pretty wife and son attended comedian I Go Save's daughter's...
Where
is Nigeria really heading to? Our leaders should wake up to their
responsibilities to stop this plaguing fuel scarcity. But for now, the
best...
Despite
the efforts of President Jonathan to seek the friendship of the core
North by extending a reasonable size of projects to them, he was ...
Dino,
with his dismal public image, not very fantastic to reckon with, if he
truly pursues this course and achieves it, he will win a second
chance...
The vice-president elect, Professor Osinbajo is at the ongoing RCCG
May 1st Holy Ghost service where he came out to testify of the goodness
of...
This
is what Lara wise of AIT had to say about the alleged ban on AIT.I
want to, this morning appeal to all Nigerians, friends on Facebook, pro
...
Policemen
attached to Orile police station were stunned when they arrested a
grand mother who sold her daughter’s 2 -day old baby for N300,...
3. Mike Adenuga
Chairman of telecommunication outfit Globacom and one of Nigeria's richest and out-of-public private citizens. He is a friend of the GEJ government and as such was appointed as Co-Chairman by Jonathan in 2012 to head the flood committee.
4. South-south PDP Governors
They are governors Liyel Imoke( Cross River), Godswill Akpabio( Akwa Ibom), Seriake Dickson( Bayelsa state), Emmanuel Uduaghan( Delta state) and govenor-elect Nyesom Wike( Rivers state - considered to be a nightmare to incumbent governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the APC). They are major financiers and gave Jonathan a bloc-vote during the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections. Rivers state gave GEJ over 1.4million votes to emerge highest from the region.
5. South-east PDP Governors
Abia - TA Orji, Ebonyi - M Elechi, Enugu - S Chime; they tried to replicate the 2011 magic but I guess something happened along the line. Nonetheless, GEJ won convincingly in the zone but could not win nationally in 2015 as was in 2011. The highest GEJ secured from this zone was 500,000+ in Enugu state.
6. Alex Ekwueme
Former Nigerian vice president under Shehu Shagari and a prominent member of those who formed the PDP in 1998. He complained sometime ago of being maginalized in the mani-stream PDP by the Jonathan administration before GEJ visited his state for the PDP presidential campaign.
Senator-elect
and Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has advised
candidates of other political parties who were defeated in the...
The
National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has issued a very strong warning to some ambitious aides and
associates...
Pic
1: Prof Osinbajo pictured with Olamide, Kunle Afolayan, Dammy krane,
Gbenga Adeyinka , Yomi Fash Lanso. #HouseOfChangePic 2 : Prof Osinbajo
with...
Nigerian
celebrities no dey carry last. Ace comedian I Go Die alongside his
pretty wife and son attended comedian I Go Save's daughter's...
Where
is Nigeria really heading to? Our leaders should wake up to their
responsibilities to stop this plaguing fuel scarcity. But for now, the
best...
Despite
the efforts of President Jonathan to seek the friendship of the core
North by extending a reasonable size of projects to them, he was ...
Dino,
with his dismal public image, not very fantastic to reckon with, if he
truly pursues this course and achieves it, he will win a second
chance...
The vice-president elect, Professor Osinbajo is at the ongoing RCCG
May 1st Holy Ghost service where he came out to testify of the goodness
of...
This
is what Lara wise of AIT had to say about the alleged ban on AIT.I
want to, this morning appeal to all Nigerians, friends on Facebook, pro
...
Policemen
attached to Orile police station were stunned when they arrested a
grand mother who sold her daughter’s 2 -day old baby for N300,...
7. Shehu Shagari
With a waning strength of 80yrs+, former president shagari is an ardent supporter of the PDP from the then OBJ days to Yar'Adua. He benefited to the extent of making his son a minister and then a Deputy Governor in 2007-2015. President Jonathan is believed to have so much respect for this elderly elder statesman and recent joined former leaders to cut his birthday cake in Sokoto.
8. Ibrahim Babangida
Nicknamed the 'Nigerian Maradona.' He ousted the President-elect, GMB and took over power in 1985 and later went on to annul the 1993 presidential election won by late MKO Abiola. Many believe that Buhari still begrudges IBB for his ouster and not allowing him to bury his late mum. He once sort for the PDP ticket in 2011 with JEG along side Atiku and former NSA and current defence minister, Aliyu Gusau. He is still a PDP card-carrying member and preferred GEJ to GMB in the 2015 elections.
10. Innocent Chukwuma
Senator-elect
and Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has advised
candidates of other political parties who were defeated in the...
The
National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has issued a very strong warning to some ambitious aides and
associates...
Pic
1: Prof Osinbajo pictured with Olamide, Kunle Afolayan, Dammy krane,
Gbenga Adeyinka , Yomi Fash Lanso. #HouseOfChangePic 2 : Prof Osinbajo
with...
Nigerian
celebrities no dey carry last. Ace comedian I Go Die alongside his
pretty wife and son attended comedian I Go Save's daughter's...
Where
is Nigeria really heading to? Our leaders should wake up to their
responsibilities to stop this plaguing fuel scarcity. But for now, the
best...
Despite
the efforts of President Jonathan to seek the friendship of the core
North by extending a reasonable size of projects to them, he was ...
Dino,
with his dismal public image, not very fantastic to reckon with, if he
truly pursues this course and achieves it, he will win a second
chance...
The vice-president elect, Professor Osinbajo is at the ongoing RCCG
May 1st Holy Ghost service where he came out to testify of the goodness
of...
This
is what Lara wise of AIT had to say about the alleged ban on AIT.I
want to, this morning appeal to all Nigerians, friends on Facebook, pro
...
Policemen
attached to Orile police station were stunned when they arrested a
grand mother who sold her daughter’s 2 -day old baby for N300,...
Anambra born entrepreneur cum billionaire is fine protagonist of the Jonathan administration. He is a major beneficiary of the current President's auto policy on home-made vehicles and manufacturing in Nigeria. Innocent is the first indegineous vehicle manufacturing businessman in the country. He manufactures SUVs, pick-up trucks as well as patrol vans for the Nigerian police force and the federal road safety corps. His company was said to have donate about 15 SUVs to the 2015 PDP presidential campaign.
11. South-west Obas
These monarchs are seen as very powerful in the region and they were seen to be more amenable to the Jonathan candidature than Buhari's and more than one occasion openly supported GEJ for the 2015 elections. GEJ was said to have held meeting with all the power-broking monarchs in the region before the elections.
12. Northern states PDP governors
These are the governors of Kaduna, Kebbi, Jigawa, Bauchi, Niger, Adamawa, Katsina, Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Kogi and Gombe states. Of all these governors none was able to win even a LGA for the PDP save for Taraba, Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa despite all the Billions given them during the presidential elections.
Why they have refused to congratulate the President-Elect on his victory at the 2015 polls is yet unknown but I believe that will be left for historian, researchers and scholars to unravel.
ADD YOURS IF ANY
Sourec: http://www.nairaland.com/2290219/12-prominent-nigerian-leaders-yet
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