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Goodluck Jonathan

Politician

Goodluck Jonathan is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Goodluck Ebele Jonathan · Goodluck Jonathan · Γκούντλακ Τζόναθαν · Гудлак Џонатан · Гудлак Джонатан · 10 more...				[sources]
Other name	Goodluck E. Jonathan · Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan · Goodluck Ebele Jonathan · Jonathan Goodluck · Jonathan Goodluck Ebele · 3 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	G.E.J. · グッドラック・エベレ・ジョナサン · 古德勒克·埃伯勒·乔纳森				[sources]
Birth date	1957-11-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Otuoke				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Goodluck				[sources]
Last name	Jonathan				[sources]
Middle name	Ebele				[sources]
Title	Dr.				[sources]
Website	goodluck.org.ng · www.gej.ng				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q57380				[sources]
Position	Governor of Bayelsa State (2005-2007) · Minister of Power (2010-2011) · President of Nigeria (2010-2015) · Vice President of Nigeria (2007-2010)				[sources]
Education	University of Port Harcourt				[sources]
Religion	Baptists · Evangelicalism				[sources]
Ethnicity	Ijaw people				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2023-09-27

Descriptions

President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-08-22

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Patience Jonathan Close Associate	Spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President Federal Republic Of Nigeria	2011	2015
President of Nigeria

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Patience Jonathan Politician	spouse	-	-

Data sources

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,391

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,914

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,039

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,207

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,778

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ng-chip-pep-ng-0007251 · ng-dots-goodluck-ebele-jonathan-1957-11-20-district-bayelsa

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