LAGOS (AFP) – About 3,000 people marched through Lagos on Thursday to demand absent President Umaru Yar'Adua hand full powers to his deputy, as top lawyers pushed of an end to a power vacuum in Nigeria.

The crowd marched to the Lagos State Governor's office and handed in a letter demanding Yar'Adua, who has been in hospital in Saudi Arabia for two months, step down.

Opposition lawyers meanwhile petitioned the high court in Abuja to have his deputy Goodluck Jonathan sworn in with full powers, on the ground of Yar'Adua's "incapacity".

The president has spent nearly 60 days in Jeddah for treatment for acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the membrane covering the heart.

The demonstrators carried placards reading "Enough of the Offshore President" and "Go Umaru Go!".

"We have a ship now without a captain. A plane without a pilot," said Joe-Okei Odumakin, leader of Nigeria's Campaign for Democracy.

A similar rally was held in the capital Abuja last week, led by Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka.

Calls for Yar'Adua to step down or transfer power to Jonathan, the vice president, have mounted in recent weeks.

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I like the phrase " offshore president"

This is a good news, people are now asking questions.

do we still remember when we were saying ghana must go, can u see what ghana is doing now,
really, i dont see why they must say yaradua must go, he shud just step aside and allow noble jonathan to act pending the time he will return,
we can only predict the beginning of a fight, we can predict the end of the fight, lets be careful

Lagos really represented BIG TIME!!!

A big Gbosa to everyone that supported or attended this march. God is alive. We are all marching in the right direction.


I am a bit disappointed that non of the opposition leaders where in attendance.


Where is Buhari? he was shouting foul during the last election, even Atiku no show. Opposition leaders are known to challenge the ruling party when things are not going right, but I Nigeria, they choose to keep quiet. And during they want us to vote for them

Good work dis is d news am lookijng for

lagos 4 show

who sold them the protest t shirts they're all wearing?

somebody made a tidy profit, I see!

I didnt know una dey do t shirt nah- I for enter bid to supply

tpia.:

who sold them the protest t shirts they're all wearing?

somebody made a tidy profit, I see!

I didnt know una dey do t shirt nah- I for enter bid to supply

off all the happenings u only picked out shirts - na wa for u

when will it happen in Port Harcourt?

blacksta:

off all the happenings u only picked out shirts - na wa for u

^^ if you see a crowd like that all wearing the same t shirt- shouldnt you think of the profit someone made?

I dont know about you, but I'm not allergic to making money.

na wa oh! see as ninjas take protest in style, yuppies protesting in pristine white tees with graphic prints, i even saw the polo style
where is the agberos?

Lagos really represented o, WELLDONE

tpia.:

who sold them the protest t shirts they're all wearing?

somebody made a tidy profit, I see!

I didnt know una dey do t shirt nah- I for enter bid to supply

making money out of people's suffering - shame on u

Guys, the rally made a big impact, the turn out was massive and the organization was impressive. The policemen didn't have much to do because the rally was peaceful.

I was happy when i saw that a huge number of people (from teenagers to men and women in their 60s) came out to support the rally.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

[color=#990000][/color]INSTEAD OF ALL DIS GRAMMAR WE SHUD USE DIS MOMENTUM TO RECALL ALL OUR SENATORS ALL WE NEED ARE SIGNATURES

MIKKY2:

[color=#990000][/color]INSTEAD OF ALL DIS GRAMMAR WE SHUD USE DIS MOMENTUM TO RECALL ALL OUR SENATORS ALL WE NEED ARE SIGNATURES

@Mikky2

Lead the way and we shall support u.

blacksta:

I like the phrase " offshore president"

ROTFLOL. That one just cracks me up men

What is the point of getting all flustered simply because Yar Adua is the only DEAD president in human history ever to remain in office after being buried six feet under ?

Yar Adua the walking corpse was installed in office by his predecessor, Obasanjo, for the explicit and exclusive purpose of preventing the prosecution of Obasanjo over his theft of the 16 billion dollars that had been allocated for the repair of Nigeria's electricity generation and distribution infrastructure, and in that regard, Yar Adua has been an unqualified success whether he is dead or comatose. Those clamoring to see the corpse of Yar Adua in Nigeria have obviously chosen to ignore the original reason for his selection into office.

blacksta:

off all the happenings u only picked out shirts - na wa for u

No mind the guy, only in it for money

someone should please paste the pictures here, we wanna see it

http://saharareporters.com/news/4892-yaradua-must-go-mass-protests-in-lagos-photonews.html


Check the pictures on the link above.

When the worse happens to our politics,we all know those who come to its defence and sustainabilty, ,ride on,lagos leads big time while OTHERS follow

blacksta:

making money out of people's suffering - shame on u

This comment is unwarranted because whether you like it or not someone made a lot of money printing and probably selling those t-shirts.

And this is a fact - there is nothing wrong in making money in the process of solving a problem or helping the poor in any way unless you are looking for charity organisations and you don't have any charity organisation big enough to do just that.

@ Afam and Tpia.

To burst your bubbles. Those T-shirts were distributed to people for free.

Dungren:

@ Afam and Tpia.

To burst your bubbles. Those T-shirts were distributed to people for free.

Were they printed for free? Answer that and you will see why your bubble bursting activity does not make sense.

Unless the person that distributed them runs a free printing press it is impossible to believe.

For emphasis sake, the issue is printing and not distributing of the t- shirts.

Let them come to Port Harcourt.

Let the organizer stage the ptotest state by state so that they will know we are in for the real showdown bhur dont go to JOS coz pple there dey vex now

My people are finally on da ball. Yar'adua is selfish and uncaring as to what happens to Nigeria. That the Executive council condoned this is beyond my imagination. Get rid of him so Nigeria could progress

Just didn't want to miss chipping in that Nigeria has the most useless government in the cosmos! Thanks.

RichyBlacK:

Just didn't want to miss chipping in that Nigeria has the most useless government in the cosmos! Thanks.

Thanks, Solo Makinde

RichyBlacK:

Just didn't want to miss chipping in that Nigeria has the most useless government in the cosmos! Thanks.

And what are you doing to change that - if you no action - then shut it