Nigerians in the Diaspora have challenged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to convince Nigerians that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is in Nigeria and still alive or would come out to disprove the impression to over 150 million Nigerians who had been fooled by some Yar’Adua’s stake-holding members of his Presidency.
“We feel obliged to challenge the Presidency since we have the right to know and tell the world the truth”, a top member of executives of a Diaspora Organisation requested in London yesterday.
Alistair Soyode, Chairman of the Nigerians In the Diaspora Organisation Europe(NIDOE) expressed during a television Programme on ITV in Nigeria recently that all Nigerians living in Europe felt most the impact of the dodgy dealings by Yar’Adua cronies claiming the citizens have the right to know the news of the where-about of their President.
Mr Soyode said the situation being painted had brought insult and depressed ego to every Nigerian who could not provide answers when asked aboutthe Presidency situation in Nigeria.
He claimed:” I have a stake in this and we all have a stake in this situation and we all have the right to know”.
Many eminent Nigerians had expressed concerns that the current situation still paints a dark cloud over the image of Nigeria and Nigerians, and are therefore imploring Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to act quickly before the nation is brought to further mockery as the acting President now takes control of the nation’s governance.
The Chief Executive and Founder of Nigeria Liberty Forum, Mr Kayode Ogundamisi expressing concern recently while speaking to EMNnews.com said: We are calling on the acting president Jonathan not to sweep the issue of Yar’Adua under the carpet in as much as we want to move on as a people. We owe Yar’Adua a duty of care to make sure he is not a victim of kidnap by a group of lawless Nigerians.
“The current situation had brought ridicule and shame to the nation at a time patriotic citizen are correcting every wrong notions as carried across the world by those who had been ill-informed on the real texture of Nigeria and her people” said Spain based Mr Femi Babalola, Founder of Nigeria Organisation for Youths, Employment and Anti- corruption(NOYEA).
“ We are simply being fooled as a people and we can’t continue to live with our neighbours looking at us and creating impressions that Black people can be easily fooled because of the stake Nigeria has in the entire world as the most prominent and influential in the black world. We are terribly in serious embarrassment”, Babalola regretted.
For almost four months, uncertainty had trailed the truthful condition of the President’s health since his transfer to King Fahd’s Private Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia in November 23 2009 for medical treatment. There had been serious cover-ups by those close to the President who had played black politics with his health exploiting his ill-health to loot the country.
The president’s ill-health had actually deprived the nation the right seat in the committee of nation while what has sustained Nigeria’s interest in the heart of the world in recent times had been love for oil by Nigerian friends and the goodwill the nation had established and maintained abroad for many years.
Many Nigerians are threatening to come out with hard-hitting facts and prove that the nation had been fooled to the outside world concluding that all indications points to the facts that the President had died as reported earlier by foreign media.
The recent development in the Diaspora had ignited against the background of recent hot and rife speculations in political and social circles in London and beyond that contrary to general beliefs that the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was under intensive care in the Presidential Palace wing of Aso Rock, the president may never have been transported to the country.
Sources said even if the President Yar’Adua were to be sited in Nigeria today, it is because he had recently been smuggled in to save the cronies the embarrassment of being called liars.
London and its suburbs had been agog with rumours that the so-called transfer from Saudi was a fix-up by the President’s cronies to create impressions that that the executive President had arrived to continue his role as the leader of the country.
Three reasons were being given as reasons for the political gang-play:
*To distract members of the Federal Executive Council who were visiting the President on the eve of his so called whisk back to Nigeria so that the real situation with the President’s health would not be established. The deportation lie was cooked upso that the world would have the impression that he had been taken back to Nigeria to confuse the visiting Federal Executive Members
*There is the fear of reprisals as Executive powers had been transferred to the Vice President and the possibility of investigations to illegal forging of the President’s signature and illegal award of contracts as the President was laying unconscious . Such level of atrocities they had committed had sent jitters that the new executive power could have fingered their illegal deals
*The cronies out of their stupendous confusion had tried to lure back the military but they failed. The cronies allegedly had formulated the ambulance trick to create a perfected condition whereby the cronies would have used delayed tactics to cavort the Military to take control of the nation’s governance, during which they would have claimed the President had been transferred back to either Saudi Arabia or Hospital in the Germany for further medical attention, even though he was never taken to Nigeria.
Now rumous are advanced that the so called transfer of Yar’Adua was a clandestine deceit- a classic April fool con-tricks perfected by the President’s cronies to deceive the entire nation in order to freeze the Presidential powers of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and to pollute his authority and to derail and cripple the current presidential system.
President Yar’Adua leaving Nigeria shores on November 23, 2009 had gone for medical treatment in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and for three months and few days of his hospital exile, no body in the nation’s leadership was able to see or speak to him either from his cabinet or even from the parliament despite consistent efforts to do so.
On the eve of the arrival of a government delegation consisting of Federal Executive Council members in Saudi on a well- wishing and solidarity mission, the President in a so called hush-hush move was allegedly transferred back to the country, stalking effort by the FEC to set eyes on him.
This was seen as efforts to conceal report of his state of affairs, especially as he might have been dead as speculated earlier on by the Western Press.
In an unfolding speculation streaming throughout London and across Europe, it is believed that the President may have died as earlier reported by Western Media while efforts had been made to conceal the death and all arrangements for burial.
Many have claimed he was buried under cover in Saudi Arabia.
“If the truth eventually comes out, the cronies should be charged for abduction and murder and dealt with according to the country’s law” a source said.
News of President Yar’Adua’s death like a wild fire swept through the world as International media and Internet released information about the President’s death in January. The Presidency through Yar’Adua’s cronies dispelled the claim.
Few days later, a wobbly voice purported to be that of President Yar’Adua was heard on BBC world service telling the world he was alive and would come back to the country when his doctors so recommends.
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“As things were as at today, there had been no evidence that the President is still living because efforts had been made to conceal information about his whereabout while it is claimed he is recuperating inside an ambulance allegedly on intensive care.
“If he is still living, let have the evident”, a source requested.
Detail of the President’s death report as carried on January 11 which speculated the death of the President went as follows and it had been carried across the world by the International media:
”Nigerian president Umaru Yaradua is dead according to an anonymous hospital official at King Faisal specialist Hospital and research.
He died on 10th December at 3,30pm at an intensive care unit of said hospital Jeddah Saudi-Arabia.
Even the anonymous sources revealed that First Lady wants to keep the incident an unannounced for further few more days for un known reasons.
In fact Mr. President left Nigeria around 50 days back due to severe chest pains. The cited hospital Jeddah also confirmed some health disorders besides complained chest pain as kidney failure, stroke and massive brain damage.
But totally in contrast to the facts, Nigerian officials announced the president was getting better with improving health condition”. The report concluded.