Am sure if DORA was in TURAI's position the issue of 'spouse abuse' will not arise.

http://www.ifeyinka.com/2010/02/dora-akunyilis-memo-to-o-federal.html

[size=13pt]The memo presented to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday by Information Minister Dora Akunyili asking Yar’Adua to present a letter of vacation to the Senate as required by section 145 of Nigeria’s 1999 constitution. The full text of the memo below:
STATE OF THE NATION

1. I want to start my humble submission by stating that I am a 100 per cent loyalist of President Yar’Adua. He appointed all of us because he trusts us and wants us to help him to run government effectively and efficiently. Mr. President has given all of us seated in this chamber the opportunity to serve our nation as members of this council.

I believe that in the choice of all of us, as individuals and group, Mr. President must have considered our ability to guide him aright to serve our people better, promote and protect the constitution in line with the oath of office taken before him in this chamber by each and every one of us. President Yar’Adua is very dear to me just as he is to all of you.


2. We are all aware of what has been happening in Nigeria, especially as it concerns the issue of making the Vice President an acting President. There have been debates for and against.


3. Some have argued that there is no vacuum and that it is okay for the Vice President to function as Vice President, not as Acting President pending the return and recovery of Mr. President. For the proponents of this theory, I want to remind them that Permanent Secretaries had been waiting to be sworn in for over two months now. Consequently, many ministries are without Permanent Secretaries including my ministry.

As it is today, the Vice President cannot take any document to National Assembly. In a very desperate situation like the recent Jos crisis, the Vice President deployed troops to Plateau, but many have openly said that he does not have the right because there cannot be two Commanders-in-Chief at a time.

4. Just recently, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, has opted out of the amnesty and resumed hostility. They argued that they have been kept in limbo since the President took ill and they appeared to have been abandoned since nobody could talk to them or keep the promise made to them. Our economy is once more being threatened.


5. The past Chief Justice of the Federation swore in his successor for the first time in the history of our nation. The power vacuum at that level has also compounded our ‘poor image’ at the international level because of our failure to rise to international expectations, commitments and engagements that require the presence of our President.

Many of those opportunities have existed in the past 70 days that I do not need to recount. I do not need to repeat the uncomplimentary statements made by United States, United Kingdom and EU concerning the current state of affairs in Nigeria .


6. There has been persistent agitation by the public for members of the Federal Executive Council to do something. Nigerians expect us to rise to this challenge on behalf of our President as the leader of this administration. Some eminent citizens have spoken. They include former Heads of State and others who have served our nation in various capacities.


The Senate has also taken a position of which we are all aware. The looming crisis in the system is over boiling. Our hard earned democracy is being threatened by the day.


7. What went wrong? We love our President but we should remember that he is not infallible. Before he left Nigeria he had a moral and constitutional obligation to officially inform the Senate and hand over the mantle of leadership to the Vice President pending his return and recovery. That did not happen. Yes, the mistake has been made by our Boss and our brother.


Mr. President is ill and did not choose to be sick. But while we continue to pray for his recovery, we should try to right the wrong.


8. Some have argued that he left the country in a hurry. This argument has been punctured by the fact that he signed the Appropriation Bill for National Assembly. If he could sign the Bill, why did he not sign a letter for Vice President to act on his behalf until he is well enough?


9. We have a local proverb that says that “A goat does not get strangulated by the rope used in tying it when an adult is present.” We are all in a better position to know that the polity is overheated to a frightening level. Posterity will judge us harshly if we do not positively intervene to resolve this logjam.


10. I wish to call on the Federal Executive Council to act now in the best interest of our dear President and our dear Nation.



We also need to save ourselves from shame because our stand is becoming very embarrassing. He has been away for about 70 days now, even if he returns tomorrow, is it not better for him to rest and recover before taking over from the Vice President?


11. We need to do what is morally right and constitutional for the President to officially hand over to the Vice President to function as Acting President. If he does not, we can evoke whichever aspect of the constitution that should make the Vice President an Acting President.

On the other hand we can take advantage of the 14 days ultimatum by the court which will expire on Friday. When the President resumes duty as soon as he recovers, by the grace of God, he takes over his position.


12. I am not saying that President Yar’Adua should resign or condemn him for being sick. He did not choose to be sick. We will continue to pray for him, but all I am saying is, let us encourage him do the right thing so that our hard earned democracy will not be truncated. Anybody who feels otherwise is unfair to our President (who has been preaching the rule of law), and utterly unfair to our country.


13. The name of our President and all his achievements are being rubbished by this unfortunate debacle. The President and his family are also being put under undue pressure which will not help his recovery.

14. If we fail to act now, history will not forgive us. I rest my case.[/size]

Kobojunkie:

What are the arguments you know of that I have made before now?

OMO IBO:

SMH
Kobo, please read again the highlighted in your post and see if it makes any sense to you.

Ok use the highlighted in your own evidence to demonastrate how you have been right all this while about Dora being evil.

She made claims of there existing a CABAL out there trying to do whatever it is she claimed, YET in her own LETTER she essentially moves to VOTE/STAMP/MAKE SURE Yar adua got another full year as PRESIDENT, even if from his death bed.

006:

^^^
Not at all.

But do you believe there was no cabal manipulating the country?

006:

I think Dora played the best of politics to move the country forward and at the same time protect the interest of Yar’dua.

006:

Personally, I wouldn’t want him sacked because he has just a year left in his tenure, but I want Jonathan to have full powers to perform without any constitutional impediments.

The Courts gave a 14 day ultimatum. If the FEC had instead gone with the court, the CONSTITUTION would have been respected

006:

@ Kobojunkie

Yes, there was cabal running the country.
As an analogy, a trader was stricken by stroke (you know he can’t move, write, or talk), the his apprentices start making decisions as if they were their boss’s mind and do any transaction as they deem fit without any sanction from their boss. What do you call them? What do you say their actions are? Legal or illegal?

006:

To the questions: But what were the CABAL doing then? Where they not protecting the interest of Yar adua as well?
They were not protecting the interest of Yar’dua rather they were protecting their own interest. The person that protected the interest of Yar’dua was Dora by not agreeing he should be sacked, rather he should take his time, recover, rest and return to office. Nobody will steal his mandate from him.

006:

Court’s ultimatum was for a medical panel to be set up. Turai never granted anybody assess to her husband, how do you think she would the medical panel? It would have been a merry go round till the military finds excuse to ruin everything.

What persons made up this Cabal? Do you know the names of the members of the Executive council?  You have to have some Names to work with here, and you have to be able to PROVE that the named have access to the power you claim they do.

Ooohh!!! So, you are saying that the President leaving Nigeria for all this time (remember he has not even cared to show up to his own VP) is ok by you?  So, her protecting this man’s mandate, even in his blatant disregard for the constitution and the people, do you believe this move was the best or the nation as well? If yes, then Ok.

Well, let’s look at it this way. The Letter which was supposed to authorize the installation of VP as Acting President NEVER ARRIVED. In essence, what happened was UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

006:

^^^
You must have lived in Aba     Still curious to know anyway.

The head of the cabal was Turai and her wishes were being executed in Nigeria by Aondaakaa and the rest of his gang. Who signed appropriation bill? Maybe Turai. The truth have come out that Yar’dua just started to move his hands. What do you call these people that run this stuff without Yar’dua’s consent? I need an answer here. Also I gave you an analogy.

006:

This stuff is not as easy as it seems. There are a lot of interests involved and what we got now is the best option in my opinion. Even in Israel, when Ariel Sharon was incapacitated, Ehud Olmert acted till election was conducted. In term of blatant disregard for the constitution, I wouldn’t blame the President because I don’t know his state of health when he was rushed to Saudi Arabia, maybe he could not talk not write.

006:

It’s still subject to debate, but in Law, doctrine of necessity is sometimes used when something was not catered for in the constitution. In this case, there was not provision for when the President could not speak nor write, so they used the BBC interview as a substitute for the letter. Was it right? I don’t know because I’m not a lawyer. Many lawyers have argued both for and against it, so it’s debatable but not absolutely unconstitutional.

[size=13pt]145. Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President.[/size]

[size=13pt]143. (1) The President or Vice-President may be removed from office in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2) Whenever a notice of any allegation in writing signed by not less than one-third of the members of the National Assembly:-

(a) is presented to the President of the Senate;

(b) stating that the holder of the office of President or Vice-President is guilty of gross misconduct in the performance of the functions of his office, detailed particulars of which shall be specified,

the President of the Senate shall within seven days of the receipt of the notice cause a copy thereof to be served on the holder of the office and on each member of the National Assembly, and shall also cause any statement made in reply to the allegation by the holder of the office to be served on each member of the National Assembly.

(3) Within fourteen days of the presentation of the notice to the President of the Senate (whether or not any statement was made by the holder of the office in reply to the allegation contained in the notice) each House of the National Assembly shall resolve by motion without any debate whether or not the allegation shall be investigated.

(4) A motion of the National Assembly that the allegation be investigated shall not be declared as having been passed, unless it is supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of all the members of each House of the National Assembly.

(5) Within seven days of the passing of a motion under the foregoing provisions, the Chief Justice of Nigeria shall at the request of the President of the Senate appoint a Panel of seven persons who in his opinion are of unquestionable integrity, not being members of any public service, legislative house or political party, to investigate the allegation as provide in this section.

(6) The holder of an office whose conduct is being investigated under this section shall have the right to defend himself in person and be represented before the Panel by legal practitioners of his own choice.

(7) A Panel appointed under this section shall -

(a) have such powers and exercise its functions in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed by the National Assembly; and

(b) within three months of its appointment report its findings to each House of the National Assembly.

( Where the Panel reports to each House of the National Assembly that the allegation has not been proved, no further proceedings shall be taken in respect of the matter.

(9) Where the report of the Panel is that the allegation against the holder of the office has been proved, then within fourteen days of the receipt of the report at the House the National Assembly shall consider the report, and if by a resolution of each House of the National Assembly supported by not less than two-thirds majority of all its members, the report of the Panel is adopted, then the holder of the office shall stand removed from office as from the date of the adoption of the report.

(10) No proceedings or determination of the Panel or of the National Assembly or any matter relating thereto shall be entertained or questioned in any court.

(11) In this section -

"gross misconduct" means a grave violation or breach of the provisions of this Constitution or a misconduct of such nature as amounts in the opinion of the National Assembly to gross misconduct.




146. (1) The Vice-President shall hold the office of President if the office of President becomes vacant by reason of death or resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or the removal of the President from office for any other reason in accordance with section 143 of this Constitution.

(2) Where any vacancy occurs in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) of this section during a period when the office of Vice-President is also vacant, the President of the Senate shall hold the office of President for a period of not more than three months, during which there shall be an election of a new President, who shall hold office for the unexpired term of office of the last holder of the office.

(3) Where the office of Vice-President becomes vacant:-

(a) by reason of death or resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or removal in accordance with section 143 or 144 of this Constitution;

(b) by his assumption of the office of President in accordance with subsection (1) of this section; or

(c) for any other reason,

the President shall nominate and, with the approval of each House of the National Assembly, appoint a new Vice-President.[/size]

mikeansy:

006

You can not have a debate with some one who means something else from what they type.

Her anger against Dora has nothing to do with her records. She is just angry somebody was brave enough to rock the the boat.

I have no interest in a debate where the ultimate objective is to type last