Arewa backs power transfer to Jonathan

The Arewa Consultative Forum, the foremost northern socio-political group, on Sunday accused members of the Executive Council of the Federation of lying to Nigerians when they announced last Wednesday that President Umaru Musa Yar'adua was fit to continue in office.

In a press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Anthony N.Z. Sani, the Arewa Forum described the action of the ministers as, "a deliberate attempt to foist falsehood on the Nigerian people".

The group said the ministers' resolution, "is aimed at playing down the reality of President Yar'Adua being either on vacation or incapacitated, considering the obvious fact that the President has been away from his duty post for more than two months now.

This kind of resolution by the Council calls into question our leaders' commitment and adherence to constitutional governance, to the peaceful unity of the nation and to Nigeria's image in the comity of nations," the group said.

While it only had harsh words for the Executive Council, the group expressed support for the position of Nigeria's former leaders which canvassed that Mr. Yar'Adua should handover to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

"The Arewa Consultative Forum commends the Eminent Elders Group (as symbolised by former President/Heads of State and elder Statesmen) in lending its weight to the voice of those who have been saying that the National Assembly should pressure President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to transmit a letter to its leadership to the effect that he is on vacation, or he is hospitalised, in line with Section 145 of the Constitution. This would be in the interest of constitutional democracy and in the in the interest of the nation and its economy."

News from Saudi Arabia-A blog on Yar'adua's condition

I just woke up to read this idiotic piece dished out to Nigerians. First, let me say, that beyond all reasonable doubt that if the diagnosis and the muddled up information dished out by the demons in PDP are true, then Mr. Yar'dua is not coming back to Nigeria, at least NOT on his feet.

Please do not get me wrong, do not mistake my take as being cold hearted or see me as a woman without African compassion in her. In fact I feel all these because I was once in the shoes of Mrs Yar'dua. Not that my own man had his kind of influence or money, but I loved him with all my heart all the same.

OK, look at this, the man is not able to speak or he is inaudible if he does. No mam/sir, the man cannot speak at all. The man is on a ventilator, he is intubated to secure the airway because someone did not have the presence of mind to intubate him, secure his airway, hyperventilate him en route to Saudi Arabia, so he SUFFERED ANOXIC NEURO DAMAGE. It takes only 3mins and at best 5 mins for any one to suffer irreversible brain damage without oxygen. So, his fool of a doctor putting him on oxygen via nasal cannula will only give the man nose bleed without making much difference. . Doctors flown in from Germany and America will not make a difference.