Hajia Turai, the wife of ailing Nigerian “President,” Umaru Yar’Adua, claims her husband last night made a "surprise" appearance to see and embrace his mother. She told Nigeria's tabloid daily, The SUN, that Yar’Adua later moved to his study at 7:30 PM and remained there till 10: 00 PM. Last week, Turai boasted to her close aides again that she would pull a surprise in the next 10 days, leaving tongues wagging as to what she may be up to this time. To compound the chaos, Dimeji Bankole, the embattled Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, told everyone he met in London that Yar'Adua would resume duties this week.

But SaharaReporters can authoritatively reveal that Yar'Adua can still neither walk around unaided, nor speak audibly. What Turai was trying to sell through the SUN, former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu's paper routine therapy sessions aimed at revamping the ailing Nigeria leader whose medical sojourn out of power would have taken exactly six months on April 23 2010.

Yar'Adua was evacuated to a Saudi hospital from Nigeria in November 2009. Since returning via air and ground ambulance almost three months ago, he has not been seen or heard in public.

In February, the ambitious Turai audaciously smuggled her husband back into the country, commando-style and with full military support, in the middle of the night, trying to give the impression he had made a miraculous recovery and was ready to return to work.

Turai's latest plot is coming on the heels of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s return from the US following a four–day working visit described by US officials as lackluster. Turai is believed to be upset that Jonathan’s visit signals US acceptance of Jonathan as Nigeria’s legitimate leader at the moment. President Obama had studiously avoided any interaction with Yar’Adua before he took ill last November.

A few weeks before Jonathan's trip to the US, Turai staged elaborate stunts that saw Islamic clerics and Christian clergymen visiting her ailing husband with the aim of scuttling the swearing-in of new ministers that had been nominated by Jonathan. The stunts however backfired as public statements made by the Islamic clerics regarding the visit indicated that they were hired to create disaffection among Nigerians.

In particular, a statement credited to Dr. Ahmad Datti said that Yar’Adua’s removal would yield serious consequences betrayed the purpose of their visit. Also, claims made by the Islamic clerics that they shook hands with Yar’Adua were somewhat disputed by Christian clergymen who were permitted to see him thereafter. The Yar’adua they saw, they said, did not appear to be capable of shaking hands with visitors.

SaharaReporters has learnt that Turai continues to enjoy the support of core military leaders including the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen Abdulraham Dambazu and the Chief of Military intelligence, a certain Major General AT Umaru, who repeatedly assist her to breach the security of the Presidential Villa where she freely invites visitors without clearance from the office of the National Security Adviser.

SaharaReporters has also learnt that efforts by the NSA, Aliyu Mohmmed Gusau, to replace the Chief Security Officer and Yar'adua's Aide the Camp, who have become controversially involved in the national power games, were rebuffed by Dambaza and Umaru. Sources told SaharaReporters that Turai has abused the villa security so much that she uses the Presidential convoy to move medical doctors brought in from Saudi Arabia and Egypt to ferry them around Abuja, something a source in the office of the NSA said has become a source of worry. She is also said to have continued to misuse the presidential jets at will, sometimes using them to pick up family members from airports around the north for routine travel.

The most abuse to which Turai has used the military men loyal to her was to harass persons loyal to Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan. One such individual was General Owoye Andrew Azazi, whose house in Abuja was burnt down while he was outside the country recently. The house in Abuja, which was being guarded by at least six soldiers, was razed to the ground while the guards had gone to eat. The blaze was put out only by the efforts of the Fire department at the Presidential Villa. Prior to the suspicious fire, Azazi had been a victim of illegal wire tapping by Turai's people in the military.

SaharaReporters has also learned that one Col. Letam Wiwa, who is described as one of the most brilliant intelligence officers in the Nigerian Army, was posted aside to an irrelevant department, a victim of a plot by officers who are loyal to Turai.

Gusau, the National Security Adviser appears to be helpless as he is more focused on extorting money from former ministers being investigated for fraud by his office. SaharaReporters learnt that the 71-year old NSA is personally investigating over fifteen Yar'Adua ministers. While the SSS is also handling a few cases, the retired General has refused to let the SSS interrogate any one of them. One of our sources said the NSA must have collected more N20 billion since he assumed office, monies that were found in the bank accounts of former Yar'Adua ministers, including Nigeria's notorious former Attorney General, Micheal Aondoakaa. The EFCC was completely shut out of the investigations.

Our source said the NSA is only interested in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), where he has practically taken over operations, and plans a major shake-up up of the ministry in order to plant his cronies.

The name of the NSA featured prominently in Halliburton list of top 80 Nigerians bribed by the US oil services company, and published last week by SaharaReporters last week. General Gasau and Goodluck Jonathan are eyeing the Nigerian presidency in next year’s elections. Gusau is building his war chest, and his ambition to become president is more important than his current job, says a source in the presidency that spoke to SaharaReporters.

As for Yar'Adua, his recovery remains very slow and uncertain. Medical sources knowledgeable about his treatment said the question of returning to office is not on the cards now, but that a meeting might be in the offing between Yar'Adua and Jonathan as part of his therapy.

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