YAR'ADUA CRIPPLED.................

Crack in Yar’Adua’s camp
•Aides give condition for continued support
By SAM ANOKAM & KENNY ASHAKA, Abuja
Saturday, February 27, 2010



Cracks have emerged in the camp of ailing President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, as his aides are demanding to be told the truth about his state of health as a condition for continued support. A highly reliable source close to the Yar’Adua family confirmed that presidential aides are not happy that since the return of their boss to the country last Wednesday, none of them has seen him, including Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who has been managing the affairs of the country in his absence.

Consequently, Yar’Adua’s aides, at a meeting on Thursday, decided that since they would not be allowed to see the president, for whom many of them had sacrificed what they called their hard earned integrity and honour, Jonathan, at least, should not be prevented from seeing him, in the interest of peace and order.
Saturday Sun gathered that the aides are pushing for Jonathan to be granted access to Yar’Adua and also that steps should be taken to erase every doubt, as to what is happening.

“The point is that people have realized that this matter has been taken to a ridiculous point. It is no longer funny to them anymore. The nation’s peace, unity and stability are being threatened. They can no longer pretend that all is well. History beckons on every Nigerian, irrespective of his or her position to rise up and save the country from disintegration. These aides have realized this and have risen to the occasion,” our source further explained.
Saturday Sun learnt that all Yar’Adua’s aides have accordingly decided to rally round Jonathan and support him in an effort to reposition the country and halt the current drift.
While sympathizing with the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua, over her husband’s health, the aides are said to have expressed the hope that she would show understanding, in the face of the current hopeless situation, let go certain things and face reality as a muslim.
Our source said if everything goes according to plan, the matter would be amicably resolved and the country would be spared further confusion and anxiety over the president’s health condition.

Questions have continued to be raised as to the motive behind the sudden decision to bring back the ailing president to the country on Wednesday if his condition is such that he will continue to be shielded from people, no matter their position in government and also their relationship with the first family.
All attempts by highly placed government functionaries to see him, since he was brought back to the country under the cover of darkness, have continued to be rebuffed, leaving people more confused and disenchanted than they were hitherto.

Not only has Jonathan not able to see him, the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, has twice tried to see the president with key officials of the party and has twice been disallowed. In the same vein, the chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday made another unsuccessful attempt to see the president. “Whatever their motive is in bringing the man back in a condition that no one is allowed to see him, not even his deputy; not even his party officials; not even the governors; not even his in-laws and so on, they clearly have failed. Nigerians cannot continue to be fooled,” our source added.

Yar’Adua’s mother denied access to him

The hide and seek game over the true state of health of ailing President Umar Musa Yar’Adua continued yesterday, as his mother was denied access to him.
Competent sources close to the Yar’Adua family told Saturday Sun that the president’s mother, who led other concerned family members to Abuja, for the purpose of seeing their son, were told in clear terms that it was impossible to see him because he is still in the ambulance that moved him from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to the Presidential Villa.

The distraught mother of President Yar’Adua was said to have been told of the grave implications of evacuating the ambulance.
According to the source, Yar’Adua could hardly now recognize anybody, as he has lost memories of anything around him.
The source said: “Yar’Adua’s mother and those she came with from Katsina were told that they cannot see the president. The doctors told them that if Yar’Adua is evacuated from the ambulance, he would die.

“It took doctors, a few of who came with the ambulance airbus, one and a half hours to evacuate the president from the airbus ambulance into the waiting ambulance at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport on arrival.”
Family sources also revealed that they had earlier asked for the return of Yar’Adua to Katsina but that the wife, Hajia Turai, rebuffed all entreaties.

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Posted: at 17-03-2010 08:09 AM (15 years ago) | Hero

sorry mr.president,but what has gone wrong with nigerian so called leaders(PDP)?how dear you produce a dieing man as your flag bearer to rule nigeria,tufia.Posterity will never foregive u.

Posted: at 17-03-2010 08:32 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie

If d wife can see him, why nt d family, or even the acting president?

Posted: at 17-03-2010 08:48 AM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

@ poster
one wonders why and how people just lift pages of unvalidated news items here without acknowledging the source and expecting us to swallow it hook line and sinker . Next time pls quote your source of information

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Posted: at 17-03-2010 09:35 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

No matter how long it takes.....D truth wud definitely cum 2 light sumday.....One day bush meat go catch d hunter.

Posted: at 17-03-2010 11:01 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This so cal dem self leader don't have d fear of God in there mind if so why hidin him,Pls for God sake,let the healthy one continue wit job.

Posted: at 18-03-2010 12:58 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie

huh!!....y all d hide n seek games......

Posted: at 19-03-2010 01:28 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie

All we no is that Yar 'adua is dead. And it is our turn to pilot the affairs of this greate and jagantic nation (nigeria) up south south......................................

Posted: at 19-03-2010 04:39 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie

i cannot even pick any iota of truth in the news , therefore its no news at all , previously it was in news that he is dead and another time , he has only one month to live as if his lifespan is in their hands or hands of their fayher ,and now yar adua is crippled , where in the story was that mention now ?bad peoples with bad mind , wicked animals they will never think good of their fellow human being , na me go suply you all with wheel chairs when you all becomes crippled as you wish for the president, so its going to be for all of you GOD willing AMIN

Posted: at 19-03-2010 06:32 PM (15 years ago) | Grande Master

I AM VERY SURE THAT YARADUA IS VERY INCAPACITATED.
WITH ALL THESE CONTROVERCY AROUND HIM , UNLIKE A NORMAL AND HEALTHY AFRICAN PRESIDENT WHO LOVE TO DIE IN POWER, HE STILL BONE.

Posted: at 20-03-2010 08:58 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac