Goodluck Jonathan

=== Finances ===
Jonathan suspended [[Sanusi Lamido Sanusi]] as governor of the [[Central Bank of Nigeria]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nossiter|first=Adam|date=20 February 2014|title=Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank Is Fired After Warning of Missing Oil Revenue|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/world/africa/governor-of-nigerias-central-bank-is-fired-after-warning-of-missing-oil-revenue.html|access-date=5 August 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sanusi's suspension legal or illegal?|url=https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/sanusi-s-suspension-legal-or-illegal-nigeria-32427}}</ref> after a series of public investigations and raising the alarm on the [[Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation#Unremitted funds (2013–2014)|US$20&nbsp;billion NNPC scandal]] in a leaked letter which revealed that the [[Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation]] failed to account for US$48.9 billion of government oil revenue to the central bank<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nigeria's NNPC accused of withholding oil revenue|url=https://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/politics-economics/africa/2013/nigerias-nnpc-accused-of-withholding-oil-revenue|access-date=21 July 2020|website=www.petroleum-economist.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=6 February 2015|title=Special Report: Anatomy of Nigeria's $20 billion "leak"|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-election-banker-specialreport-idUSKBN0LA0X820150206|access-date=21 July 2020}}</ref> – the NNPC has a history of financial irregularities and oversees the corrupt [[petroleum industry in Nigeria]]. Sanusi would go on to reveal the extent of financial recklessness that Nigeria lost a billion dollars a month to diversion of public funds under the Jonathan administration, with oil minister [[Diezani Alison-Madueke]] diverting $6 billion (₦1.2 trillion) from the Nigerian treasury.

In addition, Jonathan was alleged to have personally ordered over ₦3 trillion ($15 billion) from the [[Central Bank of Nigeria]] to support his election and other self-serving projects under the guise of an intervention fund for national security. [[Charles Chukwuma Soludo|Charles Soludo]], a professor of economics and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, equated Jonathan's financial recklessness to that of former Ugandan president [[Idi Amin]].<ref>[http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/196901-jonathan-ran-cbn-like-idi-amin-soludo.html "Jonathan ran CBN like Idi-Amin – Soludo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402030950/http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/196901-jonathan-ran-cbn-like-idi-amin-soludo.html|date=2 April 2016}} ''Premium Times'', 17 January 2016.</ref> [[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]], an economist and former [[Finance Minister of Nigeria]], pegged Jonathan's administration as the main cause of Nigeria's economic woes in a lecture at [[George Washington University]],<ref>Nomso Obiajuru, [https://www.naij.com/799712-why-nigeria-wasnt-able-to-save-under-jonathan-okonjo-iweala.html "No political will to save under Jonathan - Okonjo-Iweala"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423155240/https://www.naij.com/799712-why-nigeria-wasnt-able-to-save-under-jonathan-okonjo-iweala.html|date=23 April 2016}}, Naij.com.</ref> although she later denied it.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Low Savings: I Didn't Indict Jonathan Administration, Says Okonjo-Iweala |work=Nigeria News Flight |url=http://nigerianewsflight.com/article/low-savings-i-didn%E2%80%99t-indict-jonathan-administration-says-okonjo-iweala|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623212634/http://nigerianewsflight.com/article/low-savings-i-didn%E2%80%99t-indict-jonathan-administration-says-okonjo-iweala|archive-date=23 June 2016|access-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> However, none of the corruption allegations against Jonathan have been proven in any law court.