To me My People: President Yar'Adua speaks....voice does sound like his, unless it is a perfect impostor....Listen to audio in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8453409.stm [51 seconds]{youtubejw}UPjyapacRKE{/youtubejw}
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The BBC audio: The manipulation continues!
Text:
QUOTE
At the moment, I am undergoing treatment and [cough] I am getting better from the treament I am getting. I hope that -uh- very soon [cough] there will be tremendous progress which will allow me to get back home. I wish at this stage to thank all Nigerians for their prayers [cough] for my good health and for their prayers for the nation. [29th second] [Pause - 2 seconds] As soon as my doctors discharge me, I will return to Nigeria to resume my duties. I would also like to use this opportunity to wish our team, the Super Eagles, success in our Nations Cup of Nations matches in Angola. [51st second]
UNQUOTE
There you have it.... he's alive, to rebut all news to the contrary.
Next we need the video, and more importantly, a medical report of his fitness in presidential office, because after 50 days of intensive care, his voice still sounds very halting, and he does not sound very confident of his early discharge: for example how "soon" is "soon?"....
Inquiring minds want to know.
Bolaji Aluko
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Mobolaji ALUKO <[email protected]> wrote:
My People:
He just beat the 50th day - unless we count November 23!
At least we now know that he is really alive....
But where is the BBC tape of the conversation? Why not to NTA first? Who elected him - British or Nigerians?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Bolaji Aluko
Shaking his head
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8453321.stm
Nigeria's ailing President Yar'Adua breaks silence
Nigeria's president, who has not been seen since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia for heart treatment in November, has told the BBC he is recovering.
In his first interview since then, Umaru Yar'Adua said he hoped to make "tremendous progress" and to return to Nigeria to resume his duties.
Nigerian opposition parties have been demanding evidence about the true state of Mr Yar'Adua's health.
A rally has been called for Tuesday, mainly to protest over his absence.
There are three different court cases under way calling for power to be transferred to the Vice-President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr Yar'Adua is also known to have kidney problems.
'Save Nigeria'
Speaking by telephone, Mr Yar'Adua said he was making a good recovery.
"At the moment I am undergoing treatment, and I'm getting better from the treatment. I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress, which will allow me to get back home," he said.
"I wish, at this stage, to thank all Nigerians for their prayers for my good health, and for their prayers for the nation."
Rumours had been rife that he was critically ill and unable to return to the presidency.
Under the banner Enough Is Enough, an organisation called the Save Nigeria Group called people on to the streets of the capital, Abuja.
There is a perceived danger of a power vacuum in a country which only saw the back of military rule just over 10 years ago, the BBC's Will Ross reports from the city.
The opposition plan is to march to the national assembly where senators are expected to be discussing the president's health.
Prominent opposition politicians and lawyers, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and the Biafran secessionist leader, Chief Emeka Ojukwu, will be among the demonstrators.
It is not clear if the demonstration will be well attended, our correspondent says.
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Nigerians may be worried about their absent president but whether they will take time off to demonstrate is another matter, he adds.
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