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Jonathan, Goodluck Ebele (Nigeria)

The National Assembly appointed Goodluck Jonathan as acting president in Feb. 2010, replacing President Umaru Yar’Adua. An academic and former governor of Bayelsa State, Jonathan had been vice-president since Nov. 2007. He became president in May 2010 on Yar’Adua’s death and was then elected to the post in April 2011. His term in office became increasingly dominated by an escalating insurgency in the northeast of the country by Islamist militants aligned to the Boko Haram movement. Amid concerns over his government’s inability to contain the security situation, he was defeated by Muhammadu Buh…