| Yar’Adua’s
fears and the powers behind him
SoapBox Diary
By CHINELO AGINA
Wednesday, February
3, 2010
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•Yar’Adua
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It is no more news that President Umaru Musa Yar’adua
is ailing and is alleged to be on life support.Neither is
it news that he has adamantly refused to hand over power to
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who until the intervention
of the court had no powers.
While the country raged and boiled, some asking for Yar’Adua’s
immediate resignation and others demanding that he obeys the
constitution, our President held tightly to the coveted throne,
turning deaf ears to those who were calling for his plum job.
Despite his obvious incapacitation, President Yar’Adua
whose innocuous appearance makes even the hardest of hearts
to sympathize with him was not moved by the fact that his
unconstitutional action was doing more harm than good, and
everyone wondered why a man who prided himself as an ardent
believer of the rule of law could so flagrantly flout the
constitution.
Undisclosed sources however, squealed to us that the real
reasons why President Yar’Adua has held on to power
as if his life depended on it. It is not unconnected with
the warnings some of his ‘advisers’ have been
giving to him.
According to sources, the President while receiving treatment
in Saudi Arabia was told by some marabouts and diviners who
attend to him, to be wary of Vice President Jonathan, because
if power is given to him, it was his destiny to keep it.
Like his name suggests, the Vice President Goodluck Jonathan
is one person that can be described as very lucky. While he
was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, he immediately became
the governor when his boss, Diepreye Alameisiagha was detained
by the Economic and Finanial Crimes Commission(EFCC).
History may repeat itself again in his favor, though in a
different circumstance as he was ordered to assume the position
of an acting President by the court.
President Yar’Adua’s loyalists who are made up
of two groups, the inner circle and the outer circle, are
also determined more than ever to frustrate any effort that
will make him hand over power.
It is said that the inner circle of staunch Yar’Adua
loyalists are those that have his ears and eyes. This cabal
runs virtually everything in the country, and it is this group
that feeds the nation with news on his health. This powerful
caucus is headed by his wife Turai, who many describe as ‘power
drunk and over ambitious’. From the appointment of Ministers
to the Permanent Secretaries, it is alleged that Turai is
the powerful force that determines who gets any post.
It is also rumored that she almost single handedly ensured
the appointment of the managing director of NNPC, and any
minister that wants to see the President has to go through
her. Such is the influence that this hitherto simple lady
and her foot soldiers wield in the corridors of power.
Sources also say that other members of this inner caucus are
Alhaji A. Ruma, Yusuf Tilde, the Chief Security Officer, and
Taminu Yakubu, the Chief economic adviser.
It is said that the outer caucus of Yar’adua loyalists
take directives from the inner group, as they do not have
direct access to the President. They depend on the inner cabal
for directives from Saudi. This group is said to be made up
of Mansur Muktar, Bukola Saraki, Rilwan Lukman,the Petroluem
Minister, Chief James Ibori and Michael Aaondoka
It is also alleged that in Saudi Arabia, it is Turai and her
foot soldiers in the first group that determines who sees
and talks to the President, and who does not. If she likes
the look of your face or thesound of your voice, you may be
lucky. It is such that even her son-in-law governor was said
not to have gotten access to see hi sfather in-lawfather in
law . father in law .
The controversial interview that the President had with BBC
and who many saw as the joke of the century was said to have
been arranged by Yakubu, but why he choose a foreign station
instead of our own NTA or Voice of Nigeria is something that
even the most intelligent of minds cannot comprehend.
What SBD and Nigerians are saying to these people who are
only after their personal interests rather than the interest
of the country is that 39 days are for the thief, but one
day is for the rightful owner.
We know that the apprehension of these people, especially
our first lady and o president is that if Jonathan eventually
takes over, he may uproot them from power and deal ruthlessly
with them. They fear that as a President, he may bring back
the dreaded Ribadu to continue the war on corrupt officials
and that will spell doom for them.
But what is yet to be seen, if Goodluck’s lucky destiny
will, push him up to become the nations President.
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