Yar’Adua’s worse condition stalls Turai’s return - More family members relocate to Saudi Arabia - Northern traditional rulers, politicians set up committee on president’s health - May extract commitment from Jonathan
From Tinu Ayanniyi and Taiwo Adisa
Monday, December 14, 2009

FIRST Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua, had to change her plan to travel home from Saudi Arabia at the weekend, when the state of her husband’s health took a turn for the worse.




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Turai, who had engineered the return of many of the close aides of the president, who initially accompanied them on the Saudi trip, was billed to return to Nigeria last Saturday.

Sources indicated that when the health of her husband, President Umaru Yar’Adua, improved earlier last week, the decision was taken for her to embark on the trip to Nigeria to fine-tune the wedding plans of her daughter, Aisha, to the wealthy Sokoto businessman, Alhaji Tukur Abubakar (Rahamanniya).

But things changed by midweek, when the president’s condition relapsed and by Thursday, it could not be categorically said that the first lady would embark on the trip.

Sources said that the uncertainty made the Presidency to place its officials on 24-hour alert up till Saturday morning but that the health situation could not really guarantee the trip home.

Sources had said that the president’s family was planning to go ahead with the wedding plans, in spite of the health condition of Yar’Adua. The plan, according to sources, is to ensure the wedding plans are not stalled because of the president’s state of health.

But the wedding originally fixed for late January may have to be shifted, following the relocation of most members of the president’s immediate family to Saudi Arabia at the weekend.

Also on Sunday, the president of the Senate, Mr. David Mark, renewed his call on Nigerians to pray for the health of the president. Mark, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, said that in spite of the anxious moments in the country, Nigerians should stay steadfast and pray for their leader.

The statement quoted Mark as speaking at this year’s thanksgiving service of the St. Mulumba’s Chaplaincy, Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja. He said: “We are in difficult times in the life and history of our country. We should all continue to pray for the quick recovery of the president for him to return and continue the governance of our nation.

“Tongues are wagging, comments from both sides and across the divide. But whichever position one holds, we must remember that we are all created by God and none of us can claim to have the power to make or unmake another.

“Times like this call for sober reflection; we must pause and ponder on the positive way forward. Above all, we should be rational in our behaviour and utterances; we must remain our brother’s keeper.”

He also stated that inspite of the challenges, Nigerians had every reason to thank God and renew faith in the Almighty. The statement also quoted Reverend Father Paul Zion as saying in a homily that Nigerians must put hope in God.

The clergyman was quoted as saying: “Thanksgiving is the only time when we pay back what God has done or given to us all through the year.

Meanwhile, top traditional rulers and politicians from the North met in Abuja, last week, to discuss the state of health of President Yar'Adua. The well-attended meeting, it was learnt, raised a contact committee that will find out the exact state of health of the president so as to determine the next step to be taken by the region.

The meeting, it was learnt, resolved that the committee should find out if President Yar'Adua could continue till 2011 and if he could, would be backed by the region to do so.

The North, it was however learnt from deliberations at the meeting, would not back him for another term of four years. The rulers and elders, it was gathered, noted that if the contact committee's report said the president's state of health could not carry him till 2011, the meeting would prevail on him to resign and hand over to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to complete his term.

They are, however, poised to extract a commitment from the vice-president that he would only complete Yar'Adua's tenure and not become a candidate in 2011. The meeting, it was reliably gathered, said it would not accept any candidate presented by the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for the 2011 presidential election.

They are of the belief that it was the former president that brought the North to this sorry pass. Meanwhile, it was learnt that they decided that they would shop for their 2011 presidential candidate themselves and Chief Obasanjo would not be allowed to have any imput because he already caused the problem they are facing at the moment.

And we pray dearly. may God hear our prayers and preserve Umaru.

Aug 1951 - Sometime in 2010.

I really pity yar adua&pray he recovers.but obj why did u do this to us?

kuramo:

Aug 1951 - Sometime in 2010.

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A confused nation without a head!!!

toba:

I really pity yar adua&pray he recovers.but obj why did u do this to us?

Enough with the OBJ name calling jare.
Was it OBJ that stole ballot boxes.
Was it OBJ that used his hands to rig the election.
Yes OBJ may have masterminded the whole thing but without the YOUTHS, he couldn't have done nothing. The youths are to blame.
Politicians can not do anything if they don't have thugs and youths to pay money to do stuff for them. IF we all decide as youths that we will not tolerate politicians anymore, we will vote our own president in 2011.

Who and who are praying, i am surely not one of them, why shd i waste my time praying for someone that has no clue what is best for him?

Fhemmmy:

Who and who are praying, i am surely not one of them, why shd i waste my time praying for someone that has no clue what is best for him?

GBAM! well said

phuck_NL:

Enough with the OBJ name calling jare.
Was it OBJ that stole ballot boxes.
Was it OBJ that used his hands to rig the election.
Yes OBJ may have masterminded the whole thing but without the YOUTHS, he couldn't have done nothing. The youths are to blame.
Politicians can not do anything if they don't have thugs and youths to pay money to do stuff for them. IF we all decide as youths that we will not tolerate politicians anymore, we will vote our own president in 2011.

Come oooo, before you talk any further
Are you OBJ in disguise?

only God can help naija, where are we, what is really going on in that country?, omg, this sucks, talking abt this shit all fucking time, we have an asshole as a president, it hit my nerves a lot, take a look at gahna, they have light and naija is still fucking nagging on how to fix a good government, isnt there a good bomb to hit aso rock, we need a good government not an asshole geeees,

jackmumen:

only God can help naija, where are we, what is really going on in that country?, omg, this sucks, talking abt this poo all bleeping time, we have an asshole as a president, it hit my nerves a lot, take a look at gahna, they have light and naija is still bleeping nagging on how to fix a good government, isnt there a good bomb to hit aso rock, we need a good government not an asshole geeees,

Hahahaha.
I feel ur anger.
i wonder they are yet to pull the plug on that sick dog

paddy_lo:

i believe OBJ saw yar adua as not corrupt and a good shepard of the reforms he carried out
[b]i believe yaradua is better than atiku or buhari. . .
its a shame he had to fall sick. . .

What did your lame duck president, Yaradua do again to qualify for any sort of comparison?


On another note,
Your eyes are dirty brown. You may have hepatitis C without knowing it. See a doctor as soon as possible.

Aloy~Emeka:

What did your lame duck president, Yaradua do again to qualify for any sort of comparison?


On another note,
Your eyes are dirty brown. You may have hepatitis C without knowing it. See a doctor as soon as possible.

Lol!!! The Guy really need to see a doctor. He is now blaming the backwardness of the country on yaradull's illness, as if he was performing when he was healthy. OBJ knew exactly what he did and is working according to his plan. If OBJ himself tells me that in all the Northern Zone he thought Yaradull was their best candidate, he is a bloody liar.

I jst pitty the poor country that have stayed how many days without any leader. When i said Nigeria is cursed as a Nation people will pick it as an offence

Enough with the OBJ name calling jare.
Was it OBJ that stole ballot boxes.
Was it OBJ that used his hands to rig the election.
Yes OBJ may have masterminded the whole thing but without the YOUTHS, he couldn't have done nothing. The youths are to blame.
Politicians can not do anything if they don't have thugs and youths to pay money to do stuff for them. IF we all decide as youths that we will not tolerate politicians anymore, we will vote our own president in 2011.

@phuck nl,
did pilate touch Jesus Christ? did bush fight in iraq? did osama go to the world trade center? did abacha kill anyone? did ibb kill dele giwa?did charles taylor kill anyone in liberia, rawanda and burindi?
did prof iwu go to polling centres? i know the answers to these few questions will convience u on ur level of foolishness.
ur type can kill ur mother for a little change.
well, i call ur type, GLORY BE TO INTERNET

UMY should not die oh, come and finish your term?

chidichris:

@phuck nl,
did pilate touch Jesus Christ? did bush fight in iraq? did osama go to the world trade center? did abacha kill anyone? did ibb kill dele giwa?did charles taylor kill anyone in liberia, rawanda and burindi?
did prof iwu go to polling centres? i know the answers to these few questions will convience u on your level of foolishness.
your type can kill your mother for a little change.
well, i call your type, GLORY BE TO INTERNET

My Guy you wickedooo0!!
I wish he can give himself an answer to these questions.

chidichris:

@phuck nl,
[b]did pilate touch Jesus Christ? did bush fight in iraq? did osama go to the world trade center? did abacha kill anyone? did ibb kill dele giwa?did charles taylor kill anyone in liberia, rawanda and burindi?
did prof iwu go to polling centres? [/b]i know the answers to these few questions will convience u on your level of foolishness.
your type can kill your mother for a little change.
well, i call your type, GLORY BE TO INTERNET

LWKMD

chidichris:

@phuck nl,
did pilate touch Jesus Christ? did bush fight in iraq? did osama go to the world trade center? did abacha kill anyone? did ibb kill dele giwa?did charles taylor kill anyone in liberia, rawanda and burindi?
did prof iwu go to polling centres? i know the answers to these few questions will convience u on your level of foolishness.
your type can kill your mother for a little change.
well, i call your type, GLORY BE TO INTERNET

Fantastic logic!!!!
However, must Chidichris insult to drive home his point?

RIP Yar' Adua ,

Now the Country can move forward.