December 30, 2009
by Omo Ologotun-Ojorube
President Yar’adua was reported to have signed Nigeria’s 2010 budget on his sick bed in Saudi Arabia! This is not a good new but a tragedy in the making and a disastrous precedent being laid. Our affairs as a nation are being decided under tutelage of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia when the Attorney General of the nation, Mr Aondooka has yet to tell us that Nigeria’s sovereignty has been signed off to Saudi Arabia?
The President, Umoru Yar’adua was rushed out of Nigeria 36 days ago and has remained incommunicado at the King Fahd hospital in Saudi Arabia since then, and there has been no shred of evidence to proof or justify that he has capacity to take action or act and people said they have been to Saudi Arabia and back with his signature on the budget papers? The chickens have really come home to roost, we are now the ‘mungus’ abi? Anyone for instance, a minister or Turai can get one Mr. Yahoo Olopolo to sign the president’s signature on anything, bring it back home and present it to be actioned promptly? Is there any means of verifying the authenticity of such document? NO. ... See More
The constitution may not have specify the number of days the president can stay abroad, even when unwell but this president has not been able to send a recorded message, talk less of making a phone call to anyone for 36 days now and we are made to believe that he signed the budget? Are Nigerians not being hoodwinked once more? I will hope we are not being 419ed by his cronies.
Here is a poser, constitutionally, is it right for the president of Nigeria to govern from Saudi Arabia? Nigeria may be classify as one of the emerging failed states of the world, that not withstanding, we should be save the dignity of being an independent nation by the people in government at least.
As a layman, apart from the fact the decision made and send across to us from Saudi Arabia is prone to fraud, legally such decision should not be binding as the president (if he has capacity as we are being made to believe) should have delegated his vice to act on his behalf while he deals with health problem abroad. I am not convinced that the president has the capacity to act all, but we are who we are, Nigerians, we are so Godly that we’ll accept anything thrown at us, I pray that God will make our eyes see and our mouths to ask questions so that we will refuse to be taken for fools
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