Meanwhile, this week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) was cancelled by Acting President Jonathan after keeping ministers and cabinet members waiting for more than two hours.

Ministers, who as expected, came early, began waiting before 10.00 a.m., the commencement time of FEC meeting and stayed till 12.15 p.m. when the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mallam Yayale Ahmed, announced the cancellation.

The SGF, who was part of the FEC delegation to Saudi Arabia, walked into the Council Chambers and said, “the acting president has directed me to announce that this council meeting is postponed.

“Accordingly, we are to go back to our offices. A  special meeting with the acting president with all ministers in attendance is being convened by 2.00 p.m. in the acting president’s conference room. Attendance is mandatory. Thank you and God bless,” he concluded.

The meeting was fully attended and the absent ministers were the six sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Cabinet members started arriving for the meeting early on Wednesday with some smiling while others wore long faces.

Ministers who are known to be pro-Yar’Adua were once again seen smiling and chatting away after more than two weeks of carrying long faces over apparent loss of influence as a result of the absence of the president.

The acting president was said not to have shown up in his office until afternoon, same with his personal aides, fuelling speculations that he might have decided not to attend the FEC because he was not sure in what capacity he was to attend.

Yar’Adua’s aides became very visible from early in the morning and it was obvious they had taken over from the VP’s men who were nowhere to be seen around the council chambers.

Yar’Adua’s aide-de-camp (ADC), chief security officer (CSO), spokesman and  other aides were running round to put everything in order for the much-expected appearance of the president to chair the FEC meeting but he did not show up.

The Commander-in-Chief’s seat, which was the one meant for the president, remained unoccupied throughout the waiting period. Jonathan had been sitting in it since he was made the acting president, a development which was said to have angered Yar’Adua’s loyalists.

Meanwhile, the plan by the kitchen cabinet of President Yar’Adua to turn Acting President Jonathan into a surrogate was said to have been the major reason Jonathan cancelled the FEC meeting, on Wednesday.

Jonathan, according to sources, insisted that he must hear directly from his boss and cannot take orders by proxy.

The development, which was described as a set-up by government sources, played out when two aides of the ailing president walked to the acting president’s office and told him that the ailing president had asked him to go and lead the FEC meeting of Wednesday.

But Jonathan refused to carry out the said order. He was said to have attempted to reach his boss without success and then communicated to ministers that the FEC meeting had been put off.

He also gave the order that the ministers should meet with him in his office by 2.00 p.m, with the hope that he would have seen Yar’Adua by then.

At the 2.00 p.m meeting with the ministers, Jonathan informed them that with the return of President Yar’Adua, there was the need for him to see him, adding that there could not be two Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces in the country.

Sources said the plan by those who invited Jonathan to lead the FEC before hearing from Yar’Adua was to precipitate crisis at the FEC meeting, such that the scenario would be painted that Yar’Adua’s men and Jonathan’s men were fighting over the control of the presidential seat.

Some diplomatic sources, on Wednesday, said the plot was tantamount to orchestrating an undemocratic move as a result of the said scuffle which might have occurred.

“They wanted to precipitate a crisis to create the scenario that the two leaders were fighting over the president’s seat. That could be very dangerous for the survival of Nigeria’s democracy,” the source said.

Another source said Jonathan, who had read a book on the gang of four, which ruled China by proxy while Chairman Mao was sick, would not want to be a victim of “the president said.”

“When the two presidential aides came to the acting president to tell him that the ailing president said he should lead the FEC, they did not know that the man has read the Gang of Four written on the activities of the group of four who ruled China by proxy when Chairman Mao in China was sick. He did not want to do anything without hearing from his boss,” the source said.

Sources also said what happened in Nigeria, early on Wednesday, was near military takeover, as the powers of the acting president and Commander-In-Chief were breached when some persons deployed soldiers without informing Jonathan.

There was said to be confusion as to who deployed the soldiers between the Chief of Army Staff and the Chief of Defence Staff, but sources said men of the 4th Battalion of Nigerian Army, as well as the  Guards of the Brigade Garrison, were deployed and armed without informing the acting Commander-in-Chief.

“That is what happened, but it is never done. If there is a Commander-In-Chief, it is through that hierarchy that orders can be given. Over 25 vehicles were used to convey troops numbering over 300 men.

“At the airport, they sealed off the place and took over the whole international wing. All roads leading from the airport to the Presidential Villa were blocked with soldiers manning every 100 metres. They drove away journalists and protocol men from the presidential wing,” a source said.



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Surrogate president
Serious stuff. . . .

That is very interesting.

This is what we need from him.

men the politicking is becoming advanced o

Nigeria is in trouble, Even a president
can't use a proper Vocabulary, Surrogate President. . .
Since when did presidents become biological and surrogate?

I said it before, the real game just started. The coaches behind the scene have started working.

mama-gee:

Nigeria is in trouble, Even a president
can't use a proper Vocabulary, Surrogate President. . .
Since when did presidents become biological and surrogate?

Madam English mistress abeg face front. You are both ignorant and arrogant. Thank God say u no sabi pass dis, people for no hear word.

Surrogate(stand-in,proxy,deputy . , , )

Well said. All this I too sabi people sef!

mama-gee:

Nigeria is in trouble, Even a president
can't use a proper Vocabulary, Surrogate President. . .
Since when did presidents become biological and surrogate?

Empty garawa, gorodomu, agaba ofifo. . .LOL

Abegi Engrish mistress. . .make we hear word! (See more info below)

mama-gee:

Nigeria is in trouble, Even a president
can't use a proper Vocabulary, Surrogate President. . .
Since when did presidents become biological and surrogate?

na_so:

Madam English mistress abeg face front. You are both ignorant and arrogant. Thank God say u no sabi pass dis, people for no hear word.

Surrogate(stand-in,proxy,deputy . , , )

kai. . .that was bloody

He needs to grow some backbone
He should start by firing any and every pro Yaradua minister
retire any and every pro yaradua high ranking officer
that is the next step he must take [size=24pt]NOW[/size]

If I were Mrs Goodluck,things would have progressed fast

See ya slaughtered Mama-gee. . . .

Mama-gee you sef shut up at times, you dont have to post everywhere!!!

0hsisi:

He needs to grow some backbone
He should start by firing any and every pro Yaradua minister
retire any and every pro yaradua high ranking officer
that is the next step he must take [size=24pt]NOW[/size]

And you think he can do that
Jonathan is a clueless dimwit. . .
Yaradua and Jonathan should get lost and free up the space for a competent duo to take over!!

0hsisi:

He needs to grow some backbone
He should start by firing any and every pro Yaradua minister
retire any and every pro yaradua high ranking officer
that is the next step he must take [size=24pt]NOW[/size]

Easier said than done, and you think the northerner will just sit  with their arms folded while Jonathan fires these pro Yaradua ministers.

mama-gee:

Are you under the influence of Arrow-ism?

YES. . . . _{Now go to bed!}!!

OgidiBoy:


Easier said than done, and you think the northerner will just sit  with their arms folded while Jonathan fires these pro Yaradua ministers.

That is the same timidity and fear of the north that has crippled that nation
what will they do?
unleash their almajiri to southerners?
OBJ took care of every high ranking officer he didn;t like and reshuffled cabinet at will
Good luck can do same
he needs to do it

MrCrackles:

YES. . . . _{Now go to bed!}!!

Okay, I'll use you to fill my bucket full of twats.

MrCrackles:

And you think he can do that
Jonathan is a clueless dimwit. . .
Yaradua and Jonathan should get lost and free up the space for a competent duo to take over!!

He can do it
he has the power to do it
will he do it is the question?
He'll be a fool trying to govern with known enemies around him
no one does that
not even in America

0hsisi:

He can do it
he has the power to do it
will he do it is the question?
He'll be a fool trying to govern with known enemies around him
no one does that
not even in America

Abeg,stop singing the poem of hope
Jonathan can't do anything.

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mama-gee:

Abeg,stop singing the poem of hope
Jonathan can't do anything.

The earlier posters have already diagnosed your ailment
no comments

0hsisi:

The earlier posters have already diagnosed your ailment
no comments

0hsisi:

The earlier posters have already diagnosed your ailment
no comments

Yeah, diagnosis of putting twats in their place. . .

MrCrackles:

You know there's a way you have to take style to call craze woman craze woman
before she comots her clothes and enters ogbete main market
then everyone will blame you

0hsisi:

That is the same timidity and fear of the north that has crippled that nation
what will they do?
unleash their almajiri to southerners?
OBJ took care of every high ranking officer he didn;t like and reshuffled cabinet at will
Good luck can do same
he needs to do it

That's just what's going to happen, they will unleash their almajiri, and guess who suffers, the poor Igbo man in Sabon Garri Kano and Jos Plateau State.

OgidiBoy:


That's just what's going to happen, they will unleash their almajiri, and guess who suffers, the poor Igbo man in Sabon Garri Kano and Jos Plateau State.

since yaradeath has been presido,have they not been killing Igbos
what's new?

Is it today we started seeing awusa with bow and arrow?

0hsisi:

since yaradeath has been presido,have they not been killing Igbos
what's new?

Is it today we started seeing awusa with bow and arrow?

My dear you right on the money on that one.

OgidiBoy:

My dear you right on the money on that one.

You know during the last Jos riot,my aunt's brand new house that her son built her was razed down to the ground in Jos with everything the woman owned.
It's a miracle she escaped alive
The woman has finally moved down to the east after over 45 years of living in Jos

onye ghi ihe ha ge me . . . . nothing dey shele

Jonathan should just sack the arrow heads selectively. Send NSA and Economic adviser home and get CDS to place Army survellance on them. This drama will just fizzle out into thin air. In fact they will spend more time fighting to regain their personal fundamental right to freedom than causing havoc on national level.

Over time you sack ministers based on performance.

0hsisi:

You know during the last Jos riot,my aunt's brand new house that her son built her was razed down to the ground in Jos with everything the woman owned.
It's a miracle she escaped alive
The woman has finally moved down to the east after over 45 years of living in Jos

That's sad, a lot of our family friends in Bukuru a small town outside Jos also lost their houses too. I just think it's time Igbos start going home and develop their towns instead of developing the north and have them burn it down.

All na army arrangement!



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