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Govt denies the death of Yar'Adua, which increases pressure

MEDIUM rumors yesterday of the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, in Saudi Arabia, the Presidency has urged Nigerians to ignore the story, saying it is "not only false, but also a product of imagination of writers. "

Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Olusegun Adeniyi, said the public must disapprove history, insisting that President Yar'Adua is not only alive, but very conscious and improving.

Meanwhile, yesterday the Nobel Prize, Professor Wole Soyinka and some prominent Nigerians and other groups called for an urgent solution to the marsh

According to Adeniyi, who sent his response in Angola, where said he was attending the opening ceremony of the African Nations Cup as a member of the Presidential Task Force on Nigeria's World Cup participation in 2010: "The speculations are false. The President is alive and actually getting better. He is well aware, can speak and has been talking about, including making a phone asked some people back home. "

The presidential spokesman said he traveled to Angola with the permission of President Yar'Adua. "I'm here officially. But I come back home, hopefully tomorrow, because he has directed, "Adeniyi said.

In fact, "last night, former Gov. Abia State, Uzor Kalu Oji told The Guardian that called "the real proof that the rumor is worse than a lie."

"How could a man who spoke on December 31, 2009 could have died on 10 December? "

According to him, "spoke to Mutawallen Katsina me. Know his voice. Hamza, his special assistant who was his aide when he was governor of Katsina State, provided the call. "I was in Lebanon. I called Hamza to ask about the health of the president and he told me not to see him again until about four hours later. "

After that, Kalu said, " who actually called me back and handed the phone to President Yar'Adua. His voice was low, but changed the way they joke and I would not normally do. "

According to the former governor of Abia, the President may have been moved to one of the residential houses of the Saudi King hospital to avoid pressure.

"But that keeps it in Communicado mean he is dead is stretching the imagination too far. "

Inside the Presidential Villa Abuja, the atmosphere was normal throughout the day. There was no public commitments by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who was still in his office about 6pm.

But he received some visitors. The first was the vice president of the Senate, Ekweremadu Ike and, later, president of the National Port Authority (NPA) and head of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih. The Director General of State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Afakriya Gadzama, was with the Vice President. All staff were also on the ground in the Presidential Villa.

When The Guardian contacted the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, said: "No I am aware. What I do know is that the President is responding to treatment, and he recently spoke with the Vice President. "

Minister Health, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, also told The Guardian that he was not aware of anything in the President "Chukwuma! You should take it easy. I have not heard talk about such thing, "he said in response the rumor of the death of the President.

Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Joint pioneer technology test tube baby in Nigeria, Prof. A. Oladapo Ashiru IEF, in his reaction said:

"Medically when any patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome developed renal complications followed by pericarditis ureamic --- Associate only with the kidney / renal failure treatment becomes --- extremely hard, even to the best of medical equipment. In this trying time that our international image is being dented, especially with the intent of 25 December pump, the most important thing you have to sell is credibility. It is clear that if our leaders are found to be credible, will not tell us. This is why the government must quickly do everything possible to be faithful to the nation. "

It was also reported yesterday that the governors 36 states of the federation may extend its emergency meeting that began late last night in Abuja.

As expected the meeting, chaired by Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State can make the issue of health the President of the nucleus of the meeting.

The position of the governors on the subject can be made public at the end of the meeting "if the majority of them would support it," said a source.

Sources told The Guardian that the meeting became imperative to avoid speculation about the health of the president.

Soyinka yesterday also pointed to the absence prolonged Yar'Adua, saying the nation is at a standstill.

He called for mass action by citizens against what described as a "ridiculous system of 'holding the country to ransom to prevent the extension of the current emergency.

Soyinka said that the demonstration held today in Abuja, the federal capital, was organized to protest the alleged violation of the Constitution by the administration and its inclination for reeling lies to the public.

He said similar protests were held across the country to press for the implementation of constitutional provisions as a panacea to what he calls the "national emergency".

The literary giant, told the nation that are on the president's health has committed treason, adding that they should not go unpunished.

Soyinka, who was the "guest of the month" at the Agricultural Training School, Epe, Lagos State Nigeria told participants to be mobilized to address the legitimate government for its inaction.

Praising the participants to choose agriculture as an occupation, Soyinka who said it was the friendly nature of the initiative noted that agricultural settlements behind the farm of Obafemi time Awolowo in the old Western Region.

He recalled that sad time when I was a student at Government College, Ibadan, was when the school authority colonial farming as scheduled extra-curricular activity.

Soyinka also said that one of the mistakes made after independence was to abandon of agriculture in the school curriculum.

"One of the saddest days was when the colonial authorities of the agriculture school canceled. Football, athletics remained. It was one of the most disastrous. If you can not grow what you eat, should encourage people who can do it ... We have oil, but we have not can drink the oil. impaired sense of education caused people to abandon farming because of oil, "he said.

The eminent scholar, said, although the call for violent revolution filled the air, not the best option, noting that history has shown that usually consumes its architects.

He feared that a violent revolution may herald the emergence of another Stalin, reminiscent of the brutality of the Soviet revolution unleashed on the people of Russia and other nations.

But retired university don frowned at the attitude of the people docile burning national issues, he said, contrasts with the perception of foreigners on an average of Nigeria.

Soyinka said Nigerians complacency often attributed the country's problems affecting to their daily well-being to an act of God.

"What I would like to change is what appears to be the national character of docility. People absorb a lot. This is what Iwosi called Yoruba in this country. The contempt for people is incredible.

"People endure two hours of electricity per day. I know how much I pay for diesel. Just for the award of scholarships to people throughout their career. Many people outside of Nigerians who are aggressive, loud and strong. They are taking out in the way other people can not express in your home.

"The president is absent for 40 days without delivery and you are all saying here they are planting cassava, "he said.

Soyinka welcome all legitimate solutions to the current stalemate, with the exception of violence, adding that the call for an Interim National Government by his compatriot, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, was also in order.

He said participants meeting today in Abuja make some resolutions that the assistant government to end the tension and anxiety in the country.

"To me, the most important the nation is waking up, that people understand that it must accept the act of contempt of their rulers and regard it as the norm. The nation must be done in a way or another to understand that line is crossed to leave this nation without a head for so long, by not adhering to the provisions of the Constitution.

He said the lying spirit that has taken hold of those at the helm of affairs in the country to make them liable to treason.

"If the president of a nation is not in a situation where you can manage the affairs of the nation and are still lying and covering up the nation, you are committing treason against the people, "he said.

"The Constitution that we have not the constitution of the people. For me, that the constitution must be fully dump. We must have the constitution of a genuine people. But that is what we have right now is that why we have worked for many years. People should not the Constitution as something to be followed when appropriate. That is not healthy. It's what keeps the nation together. If you do not follow the Constitution, which are preparing the ground for dangerous friction at home, "he added.

Soyinka also rebuked the National Assembly for failing to rise to the occasion lamenting that his reticence has made the conspiracy of lies to succeed in the country.

He reiterated his call for a Sovereign National Conference to discuss national controversial issues, noting that the option was discussed with President Yar'Adua when he met him.

He said he had noted shame the president of the electoral commission activities in Professor Maurice Iwu and the danger of delaying the proposed electoral reforms.

However, 58 senators the northern part of the country met in Abuja yesterday afternoon to examine the consequences of the prolonged illness of the president's health.

Lawmakers met under the platform of the Forum of Northern senators. "

Although no official statement issued after the meeting, it appears that legislators agreed to support a motion being made by the full Senate to discuss the health condition of President Yarçdua.

According to sources, a fundamental prayer of this movement is that a delegate of the Senators who are sent to Saudi Arabia to the President's visit to gain first-hand information about the true state of his health.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, had said in Minna, Niger State at the weekend that the Senate will debate the state of the nation, including the continued absence of the president, when resumes.

But the House of Representatives may move the debate on the president's health, early scheduled for today for tomorrow, Wednesday. The change, according to sources, is to mourn the death of Nafada Hajia Aisha, the mother of Vice President, Alhaji Usman Bayero Nafada.

Speaking to the Guardian by telephone yesterday, the chairman of the House Committee on Finance, John Enoh, said it was time for the Assembly to take decisive action in the absence of the President from office for over a month.

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