Written by Dayo Aiyetan Thursday, 04 March 2010 00:03
As President Umaru Yar’Adua returned to Abuja last week, after three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, the country appeared to be sliding back to the precipice of a constitutional crisis regarding who was in charge of affairs of state. Yar’Adua's absence from office created a power vacuum that led to a political crisis; the president failed to transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. But three weeks ago, the National Assembly reached a political solution by declaring Jonathan the acting president.
It led to one of the most notorious medical trials in history. Some believe it even inspired the corporate malpractice thriller 'The Constant Gardener'. But pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's Trovan trial in Kano State, Nigeria, in 1996 was no entertainment for Nigerian website editor Sowore Omoyele.
Fellow citizens of our great country, those within our borders and those in Diaspora, it has become necessary for us at this critical juncture of our national life to bring a timely word to our people as we by God’s grace make sense of the non-sense that has permeated our polity since November 23, 2009 in the name of hanging onto power at all costs.
