Jonathan meets Obama
By Olusola Balogun

Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Presidency of acting President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be getting more international acceptance and support as American President, Barrack Obama, is reported to have invited the Nigerian leader to an international summit scheduled for next month.






Although the agenda of the said summit is still very sketchy, it was gathered that Obama personally called up the former Bayelsa governor asking him to attend the conference.

According to a source at the Presidency who confirmed the development, “it is true that the acting President will be going to the US in April and he will be attending a summit. They called it a nuclear summit.

He was personally and specially invited by Obama to attend the meeting.”

He disclosed that Jonathan is already making arrangements to attend the meeting, hinting that the acting President might use the opportunity to further press for the issue of delisting Nigeria from the list of terror nations that it was included soon after Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempted suicide bombing on American soil.

Political analysts view the development as a major boost for the Jonathan administration that is facing some acceptability challenges from some quarters in the country.

It is also seem as a clear departure from the era of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who seldomly attend international summits and is in the habit of sending representatives to such meetings even before he took ill in November 2009.

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And in the abcense of a VP, who is going to represent the acting president when he is abroad? It is funny, because I brought up this issue before in one of those "keep Yar Adua" threads, and some poster was telling me we would cross that bridge when we get to it. The bridge has been reached now, ,so are we going to abandon widely acceptable protocol and allow the acting president travel without someone acting in his place on home soil? You see what happens when we run the country like it is some backyard market? Another constitutional imbroglio so soon after the last, but hey, as long as the not yet seen or heard or from in five months Yar Adua stays in office, right?

^^^ we won't even notice he's gone, like Yar'Adua! Off topic: I like the VP in suit.

when there is not VP. There is a Mr Mark. He should be in charge till Goodluck gets back

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^^^ we won't even notice he's gone, like Yar'Adua! Off topic: I like the VP in suit.

Same here!!!