cosby:

[s]In your own (best) interest, no matter the position you are offered in ANY organisation (Office, Church, Meeting/Club, Party Planning, Tenants’ Association, Activist, etc), if your Deputy is named "Goodluck”, PLEASE DECLINE, even if it is UN Secretary General or Head of African Union, whatever, JUST DECLINE![/s]
Should you think I am joking, check these facts:

* [b]Goodluck was Assistant Head Boy in primary school. The Head Boy got expelled. Goodluck took over.
* Goodluck was Assistant Senior Prefect in secondary school, the Senior Prefect died, Goodluck took over.
* Goodluck was Deputy Local Government Chairman. The Chairman got implicated in corruption and got removed from office. Goodluck took over
* Goodluck was deputy governor to Alameiseigha. We all know that story
* Goodluck was Vice President to President Yar’Adua:- PERICADIATIS![/b]

He is a lucky guy and i hope he wll steer the ship of Nigeria to luck.
The NAS can legitimise his position by passing a resolution declaring Yar'Adua permamnently unfit to rule.
Jonathan can then be President and can carry out any function without fear of prosecution.

na name dey work!

oruko re n ro

Goodluck! Goodluck! Goodluck!

na 3 time I call u o!

na only one year u get for there o, ehe!

make u no waste am o!

make u show all of us say u different and u mean business o!

make u remove all those crocodiles and snakes wey dey with u from there o!

de chance wey u get so no dey come anyhow o!

make God bless u and 9ja.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=166348


Jonathan, Obasanjo Hold Secret Meeting
•Ag. President swears in new Perm Secs •Aondoakaa, Ogbulafor jet out



Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo met at a secret location in Abuja on Wednesday night, THISDAY can report.

Although THISDAY could not confirm the venue and details of the meeting, it was learnt that the talk did not take place at the Vice-President’s Akinola Aguda House residence in Aso Rock.

The meeting, which started before midnight and lasted for about three hours, afforded the immediate past president, who was instrumental to the Yar’Adua/Jonathan ticket in the 2007 presidential election, an opportunity to offer far-reaching advice to the Acting President.

Obasanjo flew into Abuja in a private jet around 8pm on the day. After the meeting ended around 2am yesterday, he flew out of Abuja an hour later.
An aide to Jonathan, who confirmed the meeting, said the Acting President was open to support and advice from all quarters, as he had already held meetings with other key stakeholders in the polity.

And the wheel of government, which had virtually been clogged with the power vacuum created by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence, is now running in full force as Jonathan yesterday swore in 17 new Federal Permanent Secretaries.
Jonathan also played host to principal officers of the Senate at his residence and promised to start sending executive communications to the National Assembly soon.

Jonathan became Acting President on Tuesday after the two chambers of the National Assembly passed resolutions empowering him to assume full presidential powers in the absence of Yar’Adua who left the country for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia on November 23 last year.
Meanwhile, the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Mike Aondoakaa, was also seen at the Abuja airport last night on his way out of the country.

He was said to be heading to somewhere in Europe “to rest” a day after he lost his high-profile job in a minor cabinet reshuffle.
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, and three other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party left Abuja via London yesterday to brief Yar'Adua on the developments in Nigeria.
The decision of the leadership of the PDP to visit Yar'Adua in Saudi Arabia was taken after the NWC meeting with the principal officers of the National Assembly at the PDP office in Abuja.

Three governors, Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) and Gabriel Suswam (Benue) had left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to meet Yar'Adua.
The delayed swearing-in of the permanent secretaries had raised concerns as the Vice-President could not swear them in without full presidential powers and many ministries had been operating without the heads of bureaucracy for months.

The permanent secretaries, comprising three women and 14 men, had been selected since November last year through written and oral process but their swearing-in and assumption of office had been stalled until yesterday.

While receiving the principal officers of the Senate in an early morning visit, Jonathan assured them that the executive arm of government would continue to maintain cordial working relationship with the legislative arm of government.
He also thanked members of the National Assembly for their courage in moving the nation forward in spite of the heated debate occasioned by the President’s absence.

Senate President David Mark, who led the Senate leadership on the visit, prayed God to give Jonathan the courage and wisdom to lead the country in the right direction, assuring him that “we will join you to continue to pray for quick recovery for President Umaru Yar’Adua”.

Mark was accompanied by his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu; the Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin; Senate Chief Whip, Senator Mahmud Kanti Bello; Senate Minority Leader, Senator Maina Maaji Lawan; Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Olorunnibe Mamora; Minority Whip, Senator Ahmed Yerima; Deputy Majority Whip, Senator Mohammed Mana; and Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya.

EX LAWMAKER CHALLENGES GOODLUCK’S ELEVATION AS ACTING PRESIDENT
Written by Onye Nkegi
Friday, 12 February 2010

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had been called upon to declare that the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria lacks the constitutional powers to pass the resolution which they passed last Tuesday; 9th February, which elevated Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to the Acting President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.



The plaintiff, Mr. Aliyu Farouk; a former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, filed the suit today following the assumption of the duties of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President of Nigeria. He was irked that the Senate went beyond their constitutional powers by mandating Goodluck to assume full Presidential Powers as the Acting President pending the return of the sickly President from Saudi Arabia.

The visibly angry Farouk is also asking the court to declare that the requirements of section 145 of the 1999 Constitution were not strictly adhered to by the Senate in passing their resolution of last Tuesday.

He further asked the court to make an order of injunction restraining Goodluck Jonathan from parading himself as the Acting President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The former Minority Leader is also seeking for an order of the court invalidating the resolution of last Tuesday as passed by the National Assembly.


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I knew it would only be a matter of time before one busy body will run to the courts. More cases like this will be filed over the next few days and we would have a worse logjam on our hand. As desirable as it is to have Jonathan in power to fill the vacuum created by Yaradua's absence, the procedure that put him there is flawed. There is a clearly defined procedure for investing Jonathan as Acting President but our "Law Breakers" in the Senate will continue to do the wrong thing so as to stall this country's progress and checkmate Jonathan's drive for power. May god help us

aimans:

@ Reptyle; There is no any attachment to your post doted @ Justcool. Pls, I also need it; softcopy of 1999 Constitution.

Sorry, Nairaland said the attachment was too large so I posted a link to it instead. Pls click on the link below and then you can download to ur computer:

http://www.chr.up.ac.za/indigenous/documents/Nigeria/Legislation/Constitution%20of%20Nigeria.pdf

this man is such a lucky fork,he does not need to vote
before he became elected.

but really what are they saying towards it. Is it that Good Luck Jonathan is the new president?

I was expecting this before, but can he deliver?/

now nigeria will start taking shape

But who is the First lady? Patience, Turai or Hillary?