 Published
February, 11th, 2010
It is perhaps fair to say that
the historic motion by the Nigerian parliament divesting former President Umaru
Musa Yar’Adua as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria and transferring same to his deputy, former Vice
President, Goodluck Jonathan, was widely and wildly received with jubilation and
great relief by Nigerians in general. This is hardly surprising given the
unrelenting agitation and strident calls from virtually all quarters that matter
in the Nigerian society, including former heads of state and chief justices,
opinion leaders, statesmen and women, and of course, the general public.
As one of
those who had urged the former president to do what was
right for the nation as contemplated by the constitution,
even if not mandated, in several of my write ups, I cannot
but partake heartily with my compatriots in this ‘feel good’
moment of national rediscovery and renewal. While still
wishing the former president quick recovery as always,
permit me to savor this moment with my fellow compatriots
for a nation that has just been pulled back from the brink
of an apocalyptic civil war through the callous and
indifferent actions and inactions of one man and his
hirelings who considered themselves more important than the
entire nation.
Was I, much
like others, initially sympathetic to the plight of the
former president and called for prayers on his behalf as
soon as the nation was told about his medical condition? You
betcha! And I still do on purely humanitarian grounds, of
course, even today. Did I for that reason reprimand those
who had jumped at his resignation calls even before the
plane ferrying him to his sick bed touched ground in Saudi
Arabia? You bet I did, and I still do, because of their
crass insensitivity and the rush for his resignation calls
at that very early stage when all that was needed then was
prayers, prayers, and more prayers, at the time before we
knew what the nation was about. I considered it immoral for
anyone to seek to politicize the health of anybody including
the president’s as many had sought to do in the early days
of his hospitalization when no one knew how long it would
take for him to come back home to resume duties. Like many,
I smelled dirty politics and wasted no time blasting their
calls as rather hasty and opportunistic. I was ready to give
the president the benefit of the doubt in his failure to
transmit a letter of his absence to the National Assembly,
because in my thinking, he might have left the country in a
very bad shape, and therefore unable to get such a notice
across. Many had in fact argued along similar lines, which
was prudent and reasonable in the circumstances.
But Yar’Adua
took our goodwill and well wishes for granted and treated
the nation with utter contempt—in fact, something of a
conquered territory, and it was time to tell him some home
truths that Nigerians are NOT a conquered people. And as it
turned out, he had no intentions whatsoever in transmitting
such notice to the National Assembly as envisaged by the
constitution he had sworn to protect and defend. He could
sign a budget from his sick bed, grant an interview to the
BBC and plot against his handover from his sick bed, but
couldn’t get a simple notice requiring just a line across to
the National Assembly in close to three months. It dawned on
me like others that the man did not mean well for our dear
nation and her suffering masses. In three words: He blew
it! To me from that point on he had committed an impeachable
offense because he swore not only to protect the letters but
also the spirit of the constitution and there he was riding
roughshod over our constitution and seemingly getting away
with it as the nation looked on helplessly and hopelessly
with no sense of direction.
Many turned
against him because of his arrogance and utter contempt for
the Nigerian people. It was hardly surprising, therefore,
that those who had resisted the calls for his transfer of
power to his deputy in the National Assembly a few days ago
turned against him and that’s why the motion for his ouster
from power was “unanimously” passed, which was a far cry
from the situation barely a week ago. Yes Yar’Adua blew it
and he blew it big time! Yar’Adua completely lost our
sympathy and empathy with the way he secreted his health
condition from Nigerians as though it was something to be
ashamed of, and the way and manner his lieutenants rubbished
our constitution to keep him in power no matter what. Why go
to such ridiculous lengths? Is he suffering from AIDS
disguised as something else? Was he Nigeria’s divine King or
Emperor? I knew we didn’t elect a King or Emperor in 2007,
but a president who could be impeached for gross misconduct
under our constitution which he swore to defend and uphold.
I didn’t get it!
In the
concluding parts of an article published last week, I had
this to say concerning Yar’Adua:
“Domestically, what becomes of the endemically faltering,
vegetative Yar’Adua presidency in the light of the
increasingly ferocious agitation for his resignation is
beyond human divination and best left in the womb of time
hopefully to be delivered later at the appointed hour as the
hour grows ever closer and closer by the day. However, this
much is clear: as long as the President of the greatest
black nation on earth remains outside the shores of the
country on medical grounds without formally handing over to
his deputy, the agitation for his handover of power either
temporarily or through outright abdication, will remain live
and well in the polity because the issue has become a
political fodder for mischief makers, and a cause for
concern by well meaning citizens. These strident calls for
resignation might reach a decisive crescendo no matter how
many hurriedly contrived BBC interviews he grants to silence
the agitation.”
And I capped
it all with this:
“It is past
time for the President to set a precedent and quit playing
games because governance is not a game but a set of
processes affecting the lives, hopes and aspirations of not
one individual but over 150 million Nigerians and corporate
institutions who look up to the government to reorder their
lives and economic activities. The Nigerian authorities seem
to be postponing the evil day because in the present
condition of acute uncertainties something is bound to give
one way or another unless and until the government decides
to normalize the situation by leveling up with the Nigerian
people. This national distraction must not be allowed to
continue endlessly because it has negatively impacted on the
nation’s development agenda whether the authorities admit it
or not.”
And this is
the clincher in the quote above: “…in the present condition
of acute uncertainties something is bound to give one way or
another unless and until the government decides to normalize
the situation by leveling up with the Nigerian people.”
That was
written long ago but published on January 25th
2010. Well “something” has given way as predicted and we’re
all the happier for it. Aren’t we? Well possibly not
everyone and certainly not former AGF Aondoakaa, Chief Tony
Anenih, ex-Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, or the notorious
Yar’Adua Kitchen cabinet members, for that matter. Turai,
Yar’Adua’s wife, must have passed out! It was in their
personal interests for Nigeria to be ruled or misruled by a
dying offshore ruler who is fighting for his dear life from
his sick bed in a foreign country, indefinitely.
Unbelievable, you might exclaim, but it is the fact! Such
things can only happen in our shores.
However, in
reviewing the blogs to feel the pulse of the nation, I came
away with the realization that there are a few Nigerians out
there, perhaps many, who, not being sufficiently abreast of
the legal foundations of the action of the National Assembly
in investing the Vice President with the title and power of
acting president, have expressed some misgivings about the
constitutional authority for the motion. It is, therefore,
important, as a public service, to make certain
clarifications regarding the constitutionality or otherwise
of this historic motion that is bound to have constitutional
reverberations throughout the democratic world and beyond.
In that
regard, it is important to note from the outset that this
ground breaking motion was based on the “Doctrine of
Necessity” and NOT necessarily on the BBC interview as a
standalone factual/cum legal authority. The BBC interview
was cited as furnishing the nation, and by necessary
implication, the Nigerian parliament with “irrefutable proof
that he (the president) is on medical vacation in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...,” as explained by the Senate
President, David Mark.
No one would
dispute that the president had publicly admitted to his
present medical incapacity in that famous BBC interview.
What is not altogether clear is whether that interview
without more sufficiently grounds a motion for power
transfer from the president to his deputy. From the wording
of the motion it is crystal clear that that interview formed
the fulcrum on which all else revolved in crafting and
consummating this constitutional revolution. The question
then is why the resort to the ‘Doctrine of Necessity’ in the
face of the provisions of section 145 of the constitution if
the interview would suffice as constituting a valid notice
to the National Assembly as envisaged in section 145 of the
constitution? To answer this question satisfactorily, we
must reproduce the provisions of section 145 of the 1999
Constitution, which state as follows:
145. Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives a written
declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is
otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office,
until he transmits to them a written declaration to the
contrary such functions shall be discharged by the
Vice-President as Acting President.
What do
these provisions tell us? There are two important clauses to
look for in the above provisions that determine everything
in the present situation---(1)“a written declaration that HE
IS PROCEEDING ON A VACATION or (2) that HE IS OTHERWISE
UNABLE TO DISCHARGE THE FUNCTIONS OF HIS OFFICE,” (capitals
mine).
With respect
to the first part (1) dealing with vacation, it is submitted
that the president can only transmit the notice when HE IS
proceeding on a vacation, that is to say, BEFORE he actually
leaves the country, and not AFTER he has proceeded on his
vacation and has left the country for close to three months.
The provision is clear with the words “when he is proceeding
on a vacation” and not after he has proceeded on a vacation.
The literal rule of statutory interpretation in the
Interpretation Act, which enjoins judicial and all
authorities to ascribe the ordinary, literal meaning to
statutory and legal provisions, makes this submission
unassailable and therefore beyond reasonable legal
disputation. It is the law!
With that in
mind therefore, the first part of these provisions can no
longer be relied upon to transmit a letter to the National
Assembly as it has been rendered INOPERABLE since the
president had already left and has been outside the country
for three months. Therefore, any purported transmission of a
letter by the former president after he had left and stayed
outside the country for nearly three months informing the
National Assembly of his vacation, would be
unconstitutional, illegal, and therefore null and void. It
would have been medicine after death. When the law
specifies an act to be carried out precedent to another the
first act must be done before the second act itself. He
must transmit the notice before he proceeds on his vacation.
And since he had already proceeded on his vacation or
medical leave it was already impossible for him to comply
with that provision. It’s a pity that Almighty Aondoakaa did
not know this.
With the
first part rendered inoperable by the passage of time, it is
the second part of the provisions that matters and therefore
germane to the resolution passed by the National Assembly,
and that is that the president transmits a written
declaration that “he is otherwise unable to discharge the
functions of his office.” Unlike the first part dealing
with vacation, it is submitted that this transmission CAN be
done at anytime and from anywhere in or outside the country,
before or after he has left the country, because it is not
encumbered by the strictures of the first part. It is
instructive to note that this is the part relied upon by the
National Assembly to pass the motion. In citing the BBC
interview as factual/cum legal foundation for the motion,
the Senate deemed the interview where Yar’Adua addressed the
nation
about his medical condition
as “irrefutable proof that he is on medical vacation in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has therefore complied with the
provisions of section 145 of the 1999 constitution...”
But not so
fast, Mr. Senate President! There is more to it than meets
the eyes, legally speaking.
There is no
question that the interview transmitted by the BBC
would have constituted a sufficient notice or declaration by
the president of his medical incapacity to discharge the
functions of his office if it had been reduced in writing
and directed to the principal officers of the National
Assembly, in particular. But that was not done in this
case. It was a general broadcast to the world at large. At
best it was a partial compliance or no compliance at all.
The question is could an interview aired primetime and
addressed to the world at large, and not specifically
addressed to the principal officers of the National Assembly
as stipulated in the provisions, constitute a transmission
of “a written declaration” to the principal officers of the
National Assembly? With all due respect, I think the answer
is a resounding, no! And the reasons are not far-fetched.
Firstly, the president does not ordinarily transmit written
communications to the National Assembly through interviews
by foreign news media, not even by local media, but only
through official governmental channels, in particular
through his National Assembly Liaison. However, since the
constitution itself does not stipulate the precise manner
for the transmission of the notice in this particular case,
this would appear not to be a serious flaw, and the BBC
transmission would probably have sufficed had other
conditions been met. Secondly, the interview was not
intended as, and therefore could not be deemed as a
transmission of a notice to the National Assembly. Thirdly,
the interview did not carry the signature of the president.
It was not a ‘written’ declaration, but a mere verbal
exchange between the president and the BBC interviewer aired
by the BBC for public information purposes only and nothing
more. Even if the interview was reduced in writing and
specifically addressed to the principal officers of the
National Assembly, which would have been sufficient in the
circumstances, the signature of the president is crucial and
that’s absent in an interview. However, I’m not sure as to
whether the president signed off on the contents of the
interview. If he did, that would cure this defect in
signification and authentication and make it official.
With these
deficiencies in mind, therefore, I would respectfully submit
that the BBC interview alone could not and did not meet the
constitutional threshold as provisioned in section 145
thereof. But the important thing is that the National
Assembly did not claim that its decision was based on the
transmission of a written notice by the president to it.
According to the senate president in the quote above, the
interview only provided the senate an ”irrefutable proof”
that the president is on “medical vacation in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia,” which means that “he is otherwise unable to
discharge the functions of his office.” With this interview
the president has made it known to the world that he is
presently unable to discharge the functions of his office.
But he is yet to transmit that information to the National
Assembly as provided for unable section 145. That was where
the nation in general and the National Assembly in
particular were stuck for weeks upon weeks with Yar’Adua,
nudged on by his AGF Aondoakaa, bluntly refusing to bulge.
There was no going around or over that critical issue of
transmitting the notice. And they thought they had the
nation on its jugular with no escape route.
In the
absence of a written transmission of that notice to the
National Assembly therefore, the National Assembly had to be
inventive and resourceful and used the BBC interview to fill
in the void. The question is, can it do so, constitutionally
speaking? The answer is emphatically yes, under the Doctrine
of Necessity, in the interest of the nation! The common
doctrine of necessity is part and parcel of our legal system
and finds application in both private and public law fields.
There are truckloads of legal authorities instancing its
applicability but I would use a layman’s hypothetical case
to illustrate it, some of which mirror or close to actual
legal cases. The doctrine of necessity could be invoked to
legalize an otherwise illegal or unconstitutional act. For
example, if a raging inferno is approaching a human
settlement from a protected National Park, it would be
perfectly legal to clear the undergrowth between the fire
and the human settlement by burning it off in order to form
a buffer zone to prevent the fire from reaching the human
settlement under the doctrine of necessity, where it would
otherwise be illegal to set fire on the undergrowth. Again,
suppose a tractor trailer is hurtling down a slope on a path
of a school bus or parked cars with children inside, it
would be perfectly legal to blow up the tractor trailer or
do anything to it to prevent it from smashing into the
school bus or parked cars packed with children and if any
damage is caused to the tractor trailer in the process it is
excusable under the doctrine of necessity and no criminal or
civil liability is incurred therein. Or suppose, for that
matter, there is an overhead bridge made up of combustible
materials connecting a building on fire with another
building not on fire as yet, and the fire is already
approaching the bridge from where it would inevitably leap
on the other building not yet on fire, and someone blows up
the connecting bridge to prevent the fire from crossing to
the other building, ordinarily blowing up the connecting
bridge would be a serious crime under the law, but in this
instance, it would be excused under the doctrine of
necessity, and no criminal or civil liability would be
incurred therein.
Thus an
otherwise criminal act is excused on the doctrine of
necessity. The doctrine of necessity is applicable in all
such and other situations where inaction puts the subject or
object in a condition or situation of grave peril if nothing
is done and done fast to save the situation. In the sphere
of public law, it is done to fill in a gap where the law or
constitution is deficient in material particular and there
is a burning need to meet some exigency in a situation not
contemplated by the law or the constitution as the case may
be. As the senate president explains:
“The
doctrine of necessity requires that we do what is necessary
when faced with a situation that was not contemplated by the
Constitution.”
What was not
contemplated by the constitution? It was not contemplated
by the constitution that the president would neglect, fail,
and/or refuse to transmit a written declaration that he is
proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to
discharge the functions of his office even when he has told
the world in a BBC interview that he is medically
incapacitated to discharge the functions of his office
thereby leaving the nation without a head. That is a
dangerous situation that must be addressed immediately
because the lives and well-being of 150 million Nigerians
were at stake. Thus if there was ever a situation deserving
of the invocation of the doctrine of necessity, this was it.
The National Assembly has therefore used Yar’Adua’s
hurriedly contrived BBC interview intended to frustrate an
earlier debate on his absence, to good effect. It was a
brilliant move that was unheard of in these parts of the
globe.
What an
irony! God moves in mysterious ways. Yar’Adua supplied the
information that has been used to nail his political
coffin. He should have known that there is a limit to the
dribbling. With this courageous and patriotic act, the
National Assembly has shown that Nigeria is more important
than any individual, including the president. What it has
done is nothing short of a constitutional revolution that
will reverberate in the halls of universities and
parliaments all over the world, especially in common law
countries. The Nigerian parliament has indeed come of age
and has taught the world a lesson or two in the
revolutionary manner it has handled this issue of a
recalcitrant and intransigent president who refused to hand
over power even when he had publicly admitted his medical
incapacity in a BBC interview that was aired primetime. He
deserves to be impeached for gross misconduct by undermining
the nation’s constitution or otherwise shoved aside for
having abdicated his office voluntarily. Thinking of
returning to Aso Rock? Sorry, there is no vacancy in the
presidency. He has no office to return to even if he’s
rushed into the country in the dead of night in a hired air
ambulance at public expense by those individuals intent on
holding the nation to ransom for fear of losing power and
all that goes with it.
The nation
must be told without delay how much of the tax payers’ funds
have been spent, wasted, or otherwise used to bribe people
since the Yar’Adua saga began. It is incumbent on President
Jonathan to furnish the nation information regarding the
huge medical bill incurred by Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia,
because it is our money, not his or his family’s largesse.
And in the
fullness of time all the unpatriotic individuals that
conspired to hold the nation hostage to their
personal/regional interests must be made to fully account
for their treachery against the nation, if only to serve as
deterrence to other like minded individuals milling around
the corridors of power. They’re responsible for the totally
unnecessary trauma the nation went through these past few
months, and the very serious damage done to the country’s
image abroad. Someone has got to answer for that. They must
all be made to understand that power does not recognize its
former owner—it only knows its present owner! For pulling an
entire nation of over 150 million individuals, just like
them, through all this humiliation and sleepless nights,
some heads deserve to roll and roll now! I’m happy that
former AGF, Akaase Aondoakaa, who had made himself a
stumbling block on the path of our national aspirations, has
been shown the door out at the Ministry of Justice. He was
the Minister of Injustice and the Attorney-General of
Corruption. The nation had had enough of his shenanigans and
legal obfuscations. Good riddance to bad rubbish! But there
are so many Aondoakaas in government. Many more like him
should find that door wide open for their exit to assuage
our totally bruised national psyche. The nation is asking
for their blood and their heads, figuratively speaking.
Gosh! God
is, indeed, a Nigerian.
Winners and
Losers
Good job,
David Mark, Dora Akunyili, and grudgingly, Speaker,
Bankole. However, this victory belongs to all those
statesmen, including former president Olusegun Obasanjo who
stuck his neck out to call for Yar’Adua’s resignation at a
time when all others whose voices carry weight in the
society chose to keep mum and were too afraid to speak up
while the nation was stewing in Yar’Adua’s juice. OBJ’s
courageous call marked the turning point that brought out
the Dora Akunyilis and the other leaders, to stand up for
what was right. The fact that he was instrumental to
Yar’Adua’s installation as president was critically
important and lent greater weight to his call. When his
efforts at the PDP BOT meeting failed, he didn’t stop and
coiled up like a beaten snake, but went public prime time.
His call split the PDP leadership right down the middle and
Yar’Adua men did not take kindly to it. In fact, after OBJ
made his call I knew the game was over and the game
changed. PDP leadership pounced on him and called him
names. Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet was livid and cried blue
murder, accusing him of betrayal because he was granted
access to Yar’Adua’s sick bed and knew his true health
condition leading to his call. That is the mark of a real
leader who would damn the consequences and do what’s right
in the interest of a nation he had helped to save and build.
For that singular act of courage, OBJ deserves national
accolades. Whatever blemishes he had prior to this time for
helping to install a lame president who refused to go away
even for a moment, have been washed away.
Kudos also
go to former heads of states, including President Shehu
Shagari, General Yakubu Gowon, and the former chief
justices, who pitched in when it mattered most. They put the
nation first before Yar’Adua. Never to be forgotten also is
Professor Wole Soyinka, for his protest in Abuja, and of
course, the ever vigilant Nigerian press and civil society.
And don’t we dare forget the venerable Chief Edwark Kiagbodo
Clark, who, as always, stood up on the side of history not
because he stands to gain anything personal, but to move the
nation forward in the right direction. And last but by no
means the least, are the much maligned governors led by
Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara state. They stood firm and
called Yar’Adua’s bluff. Their resolution was decisive and
most timely, and they made things happen! This was, indeed,
a job well done. Never before had this nation risen up in
one accord to demand justice and fair-play and got it. We
must never forget the members of the Armed Forces who
resisted calls from some unpatriotic Nigerians to seize
power unconstitutionally as a way out of the logjam. Their
patience to allow the civilians work out their problems
democratically is a welcome departure from the past, and
they deserve nothing but our gratitude for allowing
democracy to take roots.
The losers,
of course, are the PDP leadership led by Vincent Ogbulafor
and the so-called Kitchen Cabinet. It’s possible though that
unlike the very courageous ones like OBJ and Akunliyi, the
PDP leadership might have been playing a double game by
publicly voicing support for Yar’Adua while working against
his interest behind the scenes. We don’t know that though
and they must be judged by their public utterances and
actions. Other losers include ex-Governor Orji Kalu, who
stuck to Yar’Adua like a second skin when Yar’Adua’s own
skin was already falling off. Shame on all those who kept
quiet and refused to speak out in the face of tyranny!
They’re a disgrace to manhood. Shame on the likes of Prof.
Tam David West, who refused to tow the path of wisdom and
constitutionality, by sticking with Yar’Adua till the bitter
end! He is full of hate for Goodluck Jonathan. Too bad, like
it or not, Goodluck Jonathan is now his President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, not the comatose Musa Yar’Adua. David
West defense of Yar’Adua reminds one of his defense of
General Buhari’s tyrannical military junta. I suppose he’s
a friend of the military that buttered his bread even as the
same military disgraced him out of office under the
self-styled Evil Genius, IBB, who has gone AWOL, perhaps
still mourning his beloved and lovable Maryam. On that
account alone he is forgiven for not standing up for what’s
right when it mattered most. How about Chief Tony Enahoro,
Abubakar Rimi, Chief Tony Anenih, Chief Ebenezer Babatope,
et al? They went AWOL! But by far the biggest loser of them
all is Yar’Adua’s Communication Director, Olusegun Adeniyi,
who fed the nation with lies and half truths while it
lasted. He is a disgrace to his profession considering his
vitriolic column on THIS Day newspaper during the OBJ years.
He ended up serving a president who was ready to sink with
the nation and didn’t have the guts to call it quits or
stand up for what’s right. He failed to pass the standard
with which he judged others. Because of his betrayal I now
regard THIS Day and other columnists who rant against the
establishment with an abiding suspicion because the moment
they have the opportunity they’ll jump to the other side and
do worse things. I now take their criticisms as nothing but
veritable job applications to join the governments they bash
in their weekly columns. After all Olusegun Adeniji was
appointed a member of the Extractive Industry think tank
under OBJ! He was later to be found running around
interviewing then candidate Yar’Adua whom he applauded to
high heavens in his column as the best thing to have
happened to Nigeria. Little did we know then he was looking
for a job in the corridors of power! And as they say, the
rest is history. They all betrayed our nation and posterity
will never forgive them for helping to prolong this man-made
crisis in our dear fatherland.
Change Has
Come to Nigeria!
And if you
doubt this, go ask former AGF Aondoakaa—the Iroko and Grand
Strategist of the Yar’Adua administration specializing in
legal gymnastics to protect the corrupt in government. He
will be the first to tell you that change has come to
Nigeria as the ground shifted from under his feet while
standing his ground. A colossus under the defunct
administration, the nation will be spared of even his
corruptive shadows. He has been demoted to the position of
Minister for Special Duties. One of the papers (This
Day) reported that
“Aondoakaa looked like a battered man.”
He may very well end up looking like one in jail in the
fullness of time. For now, however, let him rot away in
oblivion—far away from the civilized world, in the Ministry
for Special Duties where none will see his face until his
fate is eventually decided. Again, I say good riddance to
bad rubbish! Others like him should learn their lessons.
He was Nigeria’s worst case scenario. Retaining Aondoakaa
would have been a public relations disaster for President
Jonathan. Jonathan should go a step further to root out all
Yar’Adua’s Kitchen Cabinet members, because they will most
certainly betray him and undermine his administration every
step of the way. He should know better than to keep them as
moles in his administration that will be spying on him and
reporting to Yar’Adua. He must be deft with the use of state
power and quickly move to establish himself as President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria not only in titular, but in substantive
sense as well, because as Yar’Adua and his AGF have found
out to their chagrin, power is transient and could slip out
just as quickly as it slipped in.
More than
that, however, he must move with deliberate speed to deliver
the goods to Nigerians in the very critical areas of
security, power supply, and energy. He should immediately
put into the dumpster where it belongs, Yar’Adua’s 7-Point
Failure masquerading as a developmental agenda and
concentrate on quick deliverables as mentioned above. He
has neither the luxury of time nor the funds to mess around
with the amorphous Yar’Adua agenda that even his own CBN
Governor, Mr. Sanusi, had advised him against, but to no
avail. He was a lost dog that wouldn’t listen to the whistle
of his owner.
A word, they
say, is enough for the wise. I’ll leave it at that for now.
But suffice it to restate that “Change has come to Nigeria!”
And this is
wishing our newly minted President God’s speed and
protection from the enemies of democracy and the nation.
Long live President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!
Long live
the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
Franklin Otorofani, Esq.
Contact: mudiagaone@yahoo.com
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