Goodluc Ebele Jonathan’s Biography & Life
History
Born on November 20, 1957, President Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan,currently is the President of Nigeria.
He is a former zoologist who became Nigeria’s vice-
president in the year 2007. He was the Governor of
Bayelsa State from Dec 9, 2005 to May 28, 2007, and
was sworn in as the Vice President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 07. He became the
official President of Nigeria in May 6,year 2010,This
comes as the nation prepares to bury its former
leader Umaru Yar’Adua who died on the 5th of May
2010, after a prolonged illness that saw his Vice-
President stepped in to his shoes as Acting President.
There had been tension in the country as rival
political groups fight to assert authority in what was
seen as a power vacuum during the period of the
illness of Yar’Adua.

Family Man: He is happily married to Patience
and has 2 children.

Jonathan, of the Ijo (Ijaw) ethnic group and a devoted
Christian, he was born and raised in Niger delta
which is now Bayelsa state. He went to Christian
primary and secondary schools in the area and later
attended the University of Port Harcourt.
He graduated with a B.S. in zoology in 1981, an M.S.
in hydrobiology and fisheries biology (1985), and a
Ph.D. in zoology (1995). During his university
education, he also taught at Rivers State College of
Education from 1983 until 1993. He then served as an
assistant director at the Oil Mineral Producing Areas
Development Commission, a now defunct
government agency, from 1993 until 1998.
Jonathan Goodluck’s political career began when he
became involved with the nascent People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) in the late 1990s. He was
elected deputy governor of Bayelsa state in 1999
under the party’s banner. He served in the position
until year 2005, when he was elevated to the
governorship after the incumbent was charged with
corruption and impeached. In 2007 he was selected
to be the vice presidential running mate of the PDP’s
presidential candidate, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He
and Yar’Adua were elected in April and inaugurated
in May. He became vice-president of Nigeria in the
year 2007

On Sunday 29th of May 2011, Goodluck Jonathan
Ebele Officially sworn in as the President of Federal
Republic of Nigeria

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