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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting followed his return from Guinea-Bissau after a military takeover in the West African country.
Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga confirmed Jonathan’s visit to the Villa in a post on X on Saturday.
He wrote: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu received former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on Saturday on Jonathan’s return to Nigeria from Guinea-Bissau. President Jonathan went to the West African on an election monitoring mission. There were concerns about his safety following a military takeover in Guinea-Bissau.”
The Eastern Updates reported that Jonathan arrived in Nigeria on Thursday evening via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after being evacuated from Bissau.
A video of his arrival showed him stepping off an Ivorian government aircraft and being received by supporters and officials.
The former president had travelled to Guinea-Bissau as head of the West African Elders Forum Election Observation Mission for last Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections.
His team was still carrying out its assignment when soldiers announced they had taken over the government, prompting concerns about his safety.
In other news, Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has said that there was no coup in Guinea-Bissau.
Jonathan believes the coup announced on Wednesday, as the country’s presidential election result was about to be announced, was ceremonial, wondering how a sitting President would announce a coup.
The Eastern Updates reports that General Horta Inta-A Na Man was sworn in on November 27, 2025, following a military coup that deposed Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
Jonathan feels that Embaló, a former senior military officer himself, cannot be so easily overthrown, insisting that something fishy played out.
The Eastern Updates reports that Jonathan had been in Guinea-Bissau as part of a joint election observer mission deployed by the African Union (AU), ECOWAS, and the West African Elders Forum to monitor the presidential and legislative elections.
