Nigeria: Motive of Visits to Yar'Adua

12 April 2010
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Some parliamentarians have reason to question the motive behind the recent visits of some religious leaders to recuperating President Umaru Yar'Adua. At an impromptu gathering last week at the Lawanson Bus-stop in Lagos, most of them dismissed the separate visits of Muslim clerics and Christian leaders, supposedly on the invitation of some aides of the ailing President, as nothing but a carefully contrived political move to hoodwink the populace that the President is presently on the speed lane of recovery.

"I don't know whether they think that the rest of us are mumu," began one angry parliamentarian who gave his name as Philip. He did not stop there. "Did they think that by inviting religious leaders to see Yar'Adua, that will make us to believe that he has miraculously recovered from his sickness? If he has recovered all he needs to do is to come and address us publicly through radio and TV. We don't need any religious leader to come and tell us whether the president has recovered or not; let him come out and talk to us," he declared.

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