Efforts by members of Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet to return him to Nigeria soon have so far not yielded any results, but sources told Saharareporters this evening that a “political gang” currently in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia vowed that the sickly leader will be flown home on Wednesday at all cost.

Saharareporters can reveal authoritatively that Yar’Adua has not spoken in person with anyone in Nigeria in the last 72 hours. That includes Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Saharareporters sources have confirmed that contrary to his advertised position on national TV last week Thursday, Mr. Jonathan has certainly not spoken to Yar’Adua since he was evacuated to Saudi Arabia on a medical emergency.

What VP Jonathan Goodluck alluded to, as his contact with the president was his conversation with Yar’adua’s State House chief of protocol, Ambassador Abba Abdullahi Tijjani.

A team of politicians led by Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki; Bauchi State governor, Isah Yuguda; Katsina State governor; Ibrahim Shema and businessman Aliko Dangote are hanging around in Jeddah with the hope of returning with Yar’Adua on Wednesday. That state governors have no problem abandoning their states is proof that the game is loyalty, not service.

The frantic plot to return Yar’Adua home is to forestall any attempt by any one to persuade him to hand over power to his equally lackluster vice, Jonathan.

Our sources in Abuja and Jeddah said that despite the gathering of so-called political heavyweights in those cities, Yar’Adua's condition is not really known to them, since only his wife and a few of his children have had access to him in the last 72 hours. David Mark, the Nigerian Senate president, today clownishly called for a nine-day prayer for Yar’Adua while admitting that he has had no direct contact with Yar’aAdua since he his medical evacuation to Saudi Arabia. Senator Mark is Nigeria’s Number 3 citizen in the order of hierarchy. He participated in the fake turf-fight with the House of Representatives last week as they tried to cover up the fact that Yar'Adua was not well enough to deliver the national budget. In any case, presidential assistants later delivered an unprecedented four-page PowerPoint "budget" to both houses.

Saharareporters learns that the business of governance has grounded to a halt as powerful members of Yar’Adua's cabinet have swung into action to keep his “presidency” in place until the end of his tenure in 2011. Two of his top aides, Minsiter of Agriculture, Abba Ruma and his Chief Economic Adviser, Tanimu Kurfi reportedly flew in from different parts of the world into Jeddah. Abba Ruma was in the US to meet with former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, who is equally tending to his wife, Maryam who is afflicted with cancer. Tanimu was reportedly in Mauritius where he had gone on honeymoon with his latest wife, the daughter of late Bala Usman, when he abruptly returned first to Abuja to clean up some issues before heading to Jeddah to meet his principal.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has also weighed in by claiming that Yar’Adua was "stable" and plans to return home “soon”. Saharareporters sources said Yar’Adua's doctors have insisted that he requires a prolonged stay in the hospital, at first till the end of January for proper medical care and therapy, but his wife and associates are worried that should he choose to remain in Jeddah, his influence and presidency would wither away, since he would be obliged to hand over to his VP.

There has also been no formal briefing from his unusually chatty doctors and aides who initially claimed he was strong enough to attend the “Hajj,” only for his personal physician, Barau Banye, to announce to the public, through his spokesperson, that Yar’adua suffers from Acute Pericarditis, a complication of Churg Strauss disease.

A press statement issued by Yar’adua’s information minister, Dora Akunyili, today was not brimming with any optimism either as the statement did not make any allusion to a date of return for ailing Yar'adua, but generally called for “prayers” for Yar’adua and his family in “these trying times”.

Judging by this, Nigerians are yet to know where they stand in this regard.

Chapelle.S:

Saharareporters can reveal authoritatively that Yar’Adua has not spoken in person with anyone in Nigeria in the last 72 hours. That includes Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Saharareporters sources have confirmed that contrary to his advertised position on national TV last week Thursday, Mr. Jonathan has certainly not spoken to Yar’Adua since he was evacuated to Saudi Arabia on a medical emergency.

What VP Jonathan Goodluck alluded to, as his contact with the president was his conversation with Yar’adua’s State House chief of protocol, Ambassador Abba Abdullahi Tijjani.

I knew something was amiss when he claimed that the president spoke to him over and over, when there were other reports claiming the president was in and out of comas, the same week. Roflmao!!!
We want the truth for once!

Chapelle.S:

A team of politicians led by Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki; Bauchi State governor, Isah Yuguda; Katsina State governor; Ibrahim Shema and businessman Aliko Dangote are hanging around in Jeddah with the hope of returning with Yar’Adua on Wednesday. That state governors have no problem abandoning their states is proof that the game is loyalty, not service.

Oh my gosh!!! I wonder who is SPONSORING this trip? Who dem dey deceive? Roflmao!!!

Chapelle.S:

The frantic plot to return Yar’Adua home is to forestall any attempt by any one to persuade him to hand over power to his equally lackluster vice, Jonathan.

Why RETURN him? Did he RUN AWAY? I mean what is with this “PLOT”? Roflmao!!

Chapelle.S:

Efforts by members of Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet to return him to Nigeria soon have so far not yielded any results,

These people should call a spade a spade. Is this man dead or alive? Or why would anybody want to return a whole President to Nigeria, he should return, himself if he is alive!