AS the experts from the United States and Europe to treat ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua arrived the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia, plans have been concluded to fly in the president into the country as soon as he picks up, to enable him to attend to pressing issues in the country.
The authorities of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, where President Yar’Adua is currently receiving treatment for an acute heart condition, flew in experts from the United States and Europe, sources said on Sunday.

It was gathered that the hospital called the experts to further ensure stability for the president after the ailment refused to show appreciable improvement in the first week of his admission.

According to sources, part of the plan to engage the services of medical doctors from Europe and the United States was to ensure the stability of the president for him to recover quickly and attend to national issues demanding his attention.

The development is coming on the heels of fears that government activities might be grounded to a halt this week, following the failure of the president to assent the supplementary budget aleready passed by the National Assembly.

Many government agencies, including the National Assembly, are relying on the supplementary budget to run the remainder of the 2009 fiscal year, but their inability to access the budget would mean that their activities would be on hold.

Not only that, it was also felt that the presence of President Yar’Adua in Nigeria would calm all frayed nerves and put to rest the clamour for his resignation.

“The plan is that as soon as he (president) picks up, he would be brought into the country through a chartered flight,” sources said.

Sources even added that even when the president returned, he would still need some days off to stabilise before he could be in a position to attend some events and state matters.

President Yar’Adua is suffering from acute pericarditis, which is regarded as one of the symptoms of the degenerative disease known as Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS).

The presidency had, on November 26, admitted that the president was suffering from acute pericarditis - the inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart- which is one of the symptoms of the advanced stage of the incurable degenerative disease, CSS.

Medical experts have said the disease is a rare one and only about 400 cases had been reported worldwide.

It was also gathered that the president’s health had been unpredictable in line with the symptoms of CSS.

A medical expert said the unpredictability of the state of the president was not strange because the syndrome attacked different sytems in the body at the same time.

“Those planning to return the president to the country are mindful of the fact that his absence has been causing a lot of hues and cries, but they are also being careful not to return him to the country through air ambulance, which could further raise anxiety,” a source said.

Information reaching the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday also indicated that some groups had started mounting pressure on Katsina indigenes who recently joined members of the G53 to canvass for Yar’Adua’s resignation.

A source in Abuja said plots against the G53 members by some groups in Katsina include attack on their properties.

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