According to NEXT online news "Mrs. Yar'Adua now relies on an all-Saudi staff, including drivers, security personnel and others, in the hope that no Nigerian outside her Gang of Three on the ground in Jeddah can tell for certain what is going on. Such is the nearly impregnable ring of steel thrown around the fading leader that even his principal private secretary, David Edevbie, was unable to see him when he recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to get the "president" to sign the budget. We have learned that Mr. Edevbie was restricted to his hotel, where he received a visit from the president's chief security officer, who collected the documents and subsequently returned them "signed.”.
On the 25th of December 2009, a young Nigerian citizen (by parenthood) and British citizen (by birth) Umar Abdulmuttallab was engaged in an act of terrorism, and it was expected of us that a National statement should be made from the Presidency to that effect, all to no avail, this heightened the worries of the world as to the health status of the Nigeria president.
I also wish to neglect the American chronicle 11th January publication on the web page www.americanchronicle.com/article/view/136017, which was blocked several hours after publicatoin, in a display of lack of professional integrity.
The question is, who is deceiving who? If there is a foul play in disclosing his state of health that is to say that there is a game plan on the way to subvert constitutional provisions.
As an opinion it should be suggested that the president and his advisers should come to realize that there is no better way to go by this circumstance which has befallen us than practice the provisions of the constitution, for only by so doing shall justice peace and security be restored and sustained in the country.
According to the 1999 Constitution cited below, there is a solution to this crisis which we have negleted:
Section 144 (1) The President or Vice-President shall cease to hold office, if - (a) by a resolution passed by two-thirds majority of all the members of the executive council of the Federation it is declared that the President or Vice-President is incapable of discharging the functions of his office; and (b) the declaration is verified, after such medical examination as may be necessary, by a medical panel established under subsection (4) of this section in its report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(2) Where the medical panel certifies in the report that in its opinion the President or Vice-President is suffering from such infirmity of body or mind as renders him permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office, a notice thereof signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Government of the Federation.
(3) The President or Vice-President shall cease to hold office as from the date of publication of the notice of the medical report pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.
(4) the medical panel to which this section relates shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, and shall comprise five medical practitioners in Nigeria:- (a) one of whom shall be the personal physician of the holder of the office concerned; and (b) four other medical practitioners who have, in the opinion of the President of the Senate, attained a high degree of eminence in the field of medicine relative to the nature of the examination to be conducted in accordance with the foregoing provisions.
I am of the opinion that action or inaction of our leaders in this direction primarily determines the fate of this country in this present chaos.
I am not in any way making any categorical statement about the state of health of His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but stating with optimism that if he is otherwise in a good state and as he has not been confirmed 'permanently incapable' as pointed out by Section 144(2) of the 1999 constitution, it is obvious that a public statement to counter the later has become expedient to forestall a state of Anarchy and instability in our dear country.
LONG LIVE PRESIDENT UMAR MUSA YAR'DUA !
LONG LIVE THE NORSEMEN KLUB INTERNATOINAL!
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA !
