But Mr Jonathan's proposed cabinet suggests he is keener to balance political interests rather than embark on radical reform.
When the Bayelsa state governor was arrested on money-laundering charges in 2005, Mr Jonathan, then deputy governor, found himself at the helm.
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Mr Okupe told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that the Council of States, a group headed by Mr Jonathan, had pardoned Mr Alamieyeseigha.
Oh his arrival back in Nigeria, Mr Jonathan is set to head a meeting reviewing Nigeria's security situation with the country's military and police chiefs.
He told the BBC's World Today programme that Mr Jonathan was doubly lucky as his other given name is equally propitious - Ebele, which means God's wish.
On taking office Mr Jonathan vowed to fix three of Nigeria's biggest problems: electoral fraud, a woefully unreliable electricity supply and a violent insurgency in the oil-rich southern Delta.
Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP) has previously alternated its presidential candidate between people who come from each of the two halves of the country, in an attempt to keep the peace.
Mr Jonathan took over as governor and two years later was hand-picked by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to run on the Profile: Nigeria's Goodluck JonathanPDP's ticket as vice-presidential candidate in 2007.
And as the presidency rotates between a northern Muslim and a southern Christian, to satisfy both sides of Nigeria's ethnic-religious divide, so Mr Jonathan, a southerner, probably has only a little more than a year in office before being replaced in the next election.
He is unlikely to stand in next year's election because of the ruling party's unofficial rotation system: Mr Jonathan is from the Christian south and it will be the Muslim north's turn to nominate a candidate to serve out the once-expected second term of Mr Yar'Adua's presidency.
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Of the seven - thought to be six men and a woman - only Mr Lodge, Jonathan Fawcett and Derek Pitt have been named by the Foreign Office.
Until his death, Mr Morgan worked with Jonathan Rees at Southern Investigations.
Mr Banks has chosen Jonathan Yeo, a self-taught portrait artist.
Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Yar'Adua's southern deputy, who became acting president in February as the country grew impatient, has already been sworn in and will soon appoint a vice-president, who may then be groomed as next year's candidate.
Cardiff North MP Jonathan Evans said Mr Clegg would now meet Denzil Hiles at a date to be fixed.
"We're quite pleased with that, obviously, " said Jonathan Prince, Mr. Thompson's chief strategist.
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Following the inquest, Mr Ridd's brother Jonathan said he was pleased with the verdict and felt the family had been given "some justice".
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