Nigerian President Yar’adua Is Set To Return To Work Next Week - Associates


The on-going scramble for positions in a soon to be reconstituted Federal cabinet could shortly hit a brick wall because President Umaru Yar’adua intends to resume duties in his office next week, a top source close to the ailing president told Daily Trust yesterday. However, another family source separately told Daily Trust that Yar’adua will be fit to resume work by the end of next month.

According to the top sources, Yar’adua intends to make a national radio and television broadcast to signal his resumption of work as early as Monday or Wednesday next week. They said Yar’adua may not write a letter to the National Assembly intimating it of his return because he did not transmit a letter before he proceeded on medical vacation, even though his spokesman later said Yar’adua recognised Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President.

Both sources said Yar’adua has made much progress physically since his return to the country late last month, and that his remaining medical problem now is speech-related. The sources said the ailing president now walks around the house and also around the garden, where there are many birds and animals.

They said Yar’adua brought a speech therapist with him from the Saudi Arabian hospital and the doctor has been working since then to improve his speech. Both sources said he has made progress in his speech. One of the sources told Daily Trust that Yar’adua’s return to the country last month was “premature,” and that he was brought back before he finished his therapy “for political reasons.”

In the last two weeks, Daily Trust learnt that Yar’adua received several visiting family members, close friends, some political associates, some state governors and also some personal staff, even though he has not yet met with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, however visited the residence and they met with Hajia Turai Yar’adua.

The sources said Yar’adua’s seclusion since his return to the country was ordered by the Saudi doctors because he suffered a severe infection while at the Saudi hospital when he received some visitors. The people who have been able to meet with him after his return, the sources said, were made to go through some disinfecting chambers before they were ushered into his presence. Those procedures have ended now, the sources said.

According to our sources, Yar’adua is not happy with the Acting President for sacking his aides, instituting a probe of his regime’s contract awards and dissolving his council of ministers. It is therefore likely that his resumption of work would severely upstage the on-going selection of new ministers by the Acting President.
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Comment by chinenye Sandra Odenigbo on April 13, 2010 at 8:54pm
Allow peace to reign in our country Nigeria. Our president is SICK n need rest, give him what he needs now before is too late for all of us. Long Live Nigeria!.
Comment by riks on March 26, 2010 at 12:47pm
yar adua is still n will remain the duely elected president of the federal republic of nigeria we are al happy for his return n i hope all goes well but i have problems wiv some few nigerians when this man was not there we were all complaining n now he is back n all we want is for him to forfeit his position for his vice abegg if goodluck wants to become the president of nigeria he shoup buy his nomination forms n run the primary election if he wins then contest for the sit wiv other poitical parties flag bearers wen he wins then he will be nigerian president....ONG LIVE PRESIDENT UMAR YAR ADUA LONG LIVE NIGERIA N LONG LIVE BAUCHI STATE
Comment by Prince Ekanem Bassey on March 24, 2010 at 12:20pm
Who is this n why ar Nigerians so greedy? This guy is dame sick n he needs 2 jut rest. Men I dont understand wat sote of beings some of us are. Jut check out d pic n b sincere 2 ourselves,'can he make it? I wish him d best of luck if he wants to die on d sit. Long Live Nigeria.
Comment by Dikko Tsauri on March 24, 2010 at 11:19am
Yar'adua is still our President, based on the constitutional provisions. But is he actively a President? Is he even fit to preside over his household? Who are we trying to deceive, Nigerians! Let us just go on and start picking up the dregs... Life Goes On (2pac 16:4)
Comment by Dr. Soderu Ayobami on March 24, 2010 at 7:50am
If his health can give a chance to go back to work let him go but nonbody will carry if he collaps in the office.
Comment by prince joe on March 23, 2010 at 11:31pm
well as we all can see, we all no that Mr president is week. let them live this man alone is feet to do all this wahala let the vice continue the job the position is no mandated to a particular person his whom the cap fix into is head that we wear it i don't want any of this unknown story any more how can Mr president just wake up to start work without any off the minister have seen him since he came back is just because of the Nigeria greed what is still looking for in the government let him go and release or re zine for good thanks.
Comment by muhammad zarma on March 23, 2010 at 5:37pm
it doesn't really matter wether he is back or no,t i strongly believe that what the acting president did was in oder,the cabinet ministers are simply incompetent to steer the affairs of their respective ministries,what every body should be aware of Nigeria is over and above any single individual, it is heartaching for ministers to be liars,6000 mega watts in december 2009,and yet the minister has the odarcity to tell Nigerians not to expect constant power,what of the unconstant one has anybody seen it? i for one have not.Viewing that alone warrants the complete resignation of all the ministers. I wish the president a quick recovery but if he contemplates returning the same cabinet, it will be a shameless state of a National disaster.
Comment by Gloria K on March 23, 2010 at 5:28pm
Thank God for quick recovery,iam happy for him.Turai that is power drunk should be happy.
Comment by adewale lawal on March 23, 2010 at 4:50pm
I hope this is not another distraction.While wishing him quick recovery,it will not be in his best interest to overstrech himself because of political power which is transient.
Comment by Hastings Lazarus on March 23, 2010 at 4:10pm
May be his ghost will be coming back since he had the country in mind. Pls mr. P if you happen to see yara,dua on the road now pls take on your heels you ve seen a ghust. he will come back when a dead born rise up again

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