Trying to minimize personal and political damage, Minister without portfolio, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, has retracted his suggestive comment aimed at Dora Akunyili, the Minister for Information and Communications, saying his words were merely misunderstood. Last week, following Mrs. Akunyili’s memo to the Federal Executive Council to reconsider its stand on transferring power to the vice-president in view of Umaru Yar’Adua’s extended sickness abroad, Mr. Aondoakaa had told a newspaper his colleague was seeking personal glory, and that, instead, she should “go and confront herself with what happened in NAFDAC.”Mr. Aondoakaa did not say “sorry,” either to the person whose reputation he had clearly injured. It is not clear if Mrs. Akunyili, who had given him seven days to purge himself and who now has in her hands both the knife and the yam, will take further action.
