More Nigerians and groups have joined the clamour for ailing President Umar Yar’Adua to resign and look after his health, instead of holding the country to ransom.

President Yar’Adua is currently hospitalised in a Saudi Arabia hospital for acute inflammation of the pericudium, the outer covering of his heart.

Apart from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which advised Yar’Adua to resign in view of the critical nature of his illness which had made him abandon governance, many Nigerians and groups are also of the view that the president should quit now and allow Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, continue the administration of the country.