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Nigeria’s federal cabinet rejects resolution to declare President Yar’Adua incapacitated; agrees to send team to see ill president.
Special to USAfricaonline.com and Nigeria360 e-group
ABUJA — Nigeria’s cabinet, under pressure to declare the ailing president permanently unfit to hold onto office, is to dispatch a six-man team to his Jeddah hospital, a minister said Wednesday.
President Umaru Yar’Adua has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia for almost three months for an acute heart condition.
Apart from a radio interview he gave last month, no images of him have been seen since he left for treatment on November 23.
Government has put together “a six-man team to go to Saudi Arabia to visit Mr President and his family,” Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting.
Parliament last week thrust Yar’Adua’s deputy Goodluck Jonathan into office as acting president,in a controversial vote endorsed by cabinet a day later.
Activists, including Nobel Literature laureate Wole Soyinka, at the weekend called on the government to take the bold move to state that Yar’Adua is too ill to remain in office altogether.
Nigeria’s constitution states that the head of state shall cease to hold office if two-thirds of the cabinet declare him unfit to discharge his duties.
The declaration, however, has to be verified by a medical team appointed by the senate president and the speaker of the house of representatives.
Yar’Adua’s protracted absence had raised fears of a constitutional crisis in the world’s eighth largest oil exporter.
A group of lawmakers who tried to visit Yar’Adua to determine his state of health returned at the weekend after five days without seeing him.
Akunyili did not specify a departure date of the delegation which comprises the government secretary, and the ministers of justice, health, petroleum, foreign affairs and agriculture. ref: AFP; USAfricaonline.com headline
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Monday, February 15, 2010 11:48:10 PM
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Nigerian President Yaradua suffers massive stroke
Hodderway Books
February 16, 2010
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yaradua is severely brain damaged and suffering from a severe stroke, it has been authoritatively confirmed.
Previously, it had been reported that he was dead. This was largely due to the fact that ever since he arrived at the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, he had been in an unusual coma in which he lay on bed the entire day with his eyes closed which led to some staff thinking the President was actually dead. However, it has been confirmed that the first family has bribed staff of the Hospital not to give information to the media about the true state of the President´s health.
The President of Nigeria has been bedridden since November 23 2009 and has not spoken a word since then. He spends his entire day on bed, staring blankly on the ceiling. Even though his wife, Turai has been by his side, he is said to hardly recognize her and sometimes just stares at her blankly as if she is ghost.
I don´t think your president can ever rule that country again. He is as good as dead,´ said a nurse at the Hospital who is close to Hodderway Books.
He has not said a word since he came in here. For the first two weeks, he just lay still in bed and did not wake up for days. We were so sure that he was dead and that the doctors were hiding something from us. He is not dead but he is seriously brain damaged. I don´t think he´ll make it,´ she said.
Also, the President is said to be suffering from much more than one ailment. ´He may have Lung cancer as well,´ our source said. ´For some reason the doctor has been secretive about the health of the President.´ The president is known to be a chain smoker.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the phone call in which the President supposedly called the BBC to confirm that he will return to the country when his heath got better was a prank call. According to an anonymous source in the Information technology department of the Presidency office, the first lady and close friends of the presidency used voice-morphing software in which one of the president´s childhood friends spoke to the BBC in the guise of the president. The Nigerian ruler has not said a word in the last three months. Not even to Turai. He is in such a terrible condition that the first lady has been making frantic efforts to ensure that nobody sees him in the state he is in.
Meanwhile, last week the Nigerian Parliament sent a delegation of five members of Parliament to see the ailing leader. However, the five were reportedly denied seeing the President as the Hospital staff was under strict instructions from the First lady not to allow anyone see the President in his deplorable state,
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was declared acting President last week by the Oil-producing nation.
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I want to warn Nigerians and the Federal Executive Council especially my Northern people to shun bloody politics, and remember one of our Dictators whose name upholds the unity and prosperity of Nigeria thus; G – GO
O – ON
W – WITH
O – ONE
N – NIGERIA
TOTAL IS EQUALS "GOWON" A NORTHER ELDER STATEMAN.
ANY FIGHT AGAINST JONATHAN IS AGAINST THE ALMIGHTY GOD WHOM WE PRAYED TO IN OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM THUS; "OH GOD OF CREATION, DIRECT OUR NOBLE COARSE…SO HELP ME GOD."
IF YOU FAIL TO HELP NIGERIA AND PLANS TO HINDER NIGERIA, GOD WILL HINDER YOU. WHOSOEVER IS PLANNING TO JONATHAN SHOULD GET READY TO DIE FIRST BECAUSE HE'SE UNSTOPPABLE.
HAUSAS SHOULD BELIEVE IN ONE NIGERIA AND CREATE A PEACEFUL ATMOSPHERE FOR OUR DEMOCRACY.
I'M GIVING THIS WARNING BECAUSE I FORESEE DANGER FROM NORTHER ZONE.
"A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE"