Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is to proceed on a two-week leave for undisclosed reasons from Monday, January 26, 2009, a statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, said on Friday.

Ahmed said that during the period, Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan would handle state matters.

please,always backup your stories with a link.

thank you

Naija back on autopilot once again.

Banana repubiic

The Friday news burying tactics continues, dodgy news statements like these are always put out by this government of fridays

Please can the Senate check the constitution and tell us whether the President has powers to go on leave without being sick or justifiable reasons.

you're being ridiculous as usual. just in-case you did not know, the full story has not been released, therefore it makes no sense to speculate. i can also assure you that when the rest of the story is released, it wouldn't be on friday. yaradua may be slow, but the man doesn't play stupid game.
yes, the constitution allows the president to take days off for personal or for medical purpose.

cre8tivity:

you're being ridiculous as usual. just in-case you did not know, the full story has not been released, therefore it makes no sense to speculate. i can also assure you that when the rest of the story is released, it wouldn't be on friday. yaradua may be slow, but the man doesn't play stupid game.
yes, the constitution allows the president to take days off for personal or for medical purpose.

14 days off for personal purposes. can you please kindly refer us to the section of the constitution?

And we will not assume the leave was for mdeical purposes if the President has not said he is sick.

which story do we believe?

i taught they said he was going on a 8 week medical check up in the states as from the 29th of January.

this sick prez should be alive to give his daughter out before he packs up because it is becoming apparent that there is SOMETHING REALLY WRONG WITH

THIS MAN.do you think atiku went to abeokuta to go and play ayó with that ugly baboon?

something is brewing and i don't like the smell

Folks!!!!

I guess it is fair to assume that President Yar'adua's response to the economic crisis, crashing naira,crashing stock market, crashing crude prices;

is to go on 2weeks unexplained leave.

Thank you for your concern Mr President.

144. (1) The President or Vice-President shall cease to hold office, if -

(a) by a resolution passed by two-thirds majority of all the members of the executive council of the Federation it is declared that the President or Vice-President is incapable of discharging the functions of his office; and

(b) the declaration is verified, after such medical examination as may be necessary, by a medical panel established under subsection (4) of this section in its report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(2) Where the medical panel certifies in the report that in its opinion the President or Vice-President is suffering from such infirmity of body or mind as renders him permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office, a notice thereof signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Government of the Federation.

(3) The President or Vice-President shall cease to hold office as from the date of publication of the notice of the medical report pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(4) the medical panel to which this section relates shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, and shall comprise five medical practitioners in Nigeria:-

(a) one of whom shall be the personal physician of the holder of the office concerned; and

(b) four other medical practitioners who have, in the opinion of the President of the Senate, attained a high degree of eminence in the field of medicine relative to the nature of the examination to be conducted in accordance with the foregoing provisions.

(5) In this section, the reference to "executive council of the Federation" is a reference to the body of Ministers of the Government of the Federation, howsoever called, established by the President and charged with such responsibilities for the functions of government as the President may direct.

145. Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President.

If the President don go holiday, make him explain to us why him they go 2weeks holiday in the midst of Economic crisis.

Otherwise David Mark must look for 5 doctors to unseath this man. 150 million people and Nigeria is bigger than one man.

all naija pls go for 2 weeks fasting and prayer for mr president oooooo , remember what happen to stella obasanjo pls make sure no food seller sell food until 6pm B.O.O .S NA YOU GO MAKE SURE EVERYONE FOR NAIJA FAST OOOO GOD GO HELP UNA ,

as far as i am concerned he has been on leave since the day he was sworn in// the guy aint don no work

Enough of all the noise about the sick man going for treatment or holidays.
I mean, what difference will it make if he takes even a one year leave?

Make we hear word jare.

has he been on duty?

JJYOU:

has he been on duty?

Yes na all from Aso rock and Katsina

But aren't Presidents/Prime ministers allowed to go on leave/holiday?
I thought it was a normal thing

and what's this thing about auto pilot as if the vice-president is not capable of making executive decisions

Yara'dua should resign if he can not fully execute his duty as president.

@Post,Yar'adua go charge im battery,since na only one-bar remain, haba,you wan make he die?He may be very slow but he is not very stupid to die like that.
The country is sick,why must it exempt the President?From the look of things,this man needs more than prayers.I suspect he is using a chinko(made in China)battery.Atleast for once,we have a President who is giving out details of his movement.

@ Topic
And this is a problem because. . . .

abi una want make the poor fellow crash as our naira don crash, abeg make una leave umaru make im go smoke small joint, wetin concern agbero with overload, afterall TO SERVE NIGERIA is not by force, sorry, i meant WITH ALL MY MIGHT

grade:

@Post,Yar'adua go charge im battery,since na only one-bar remain, haba,you wan make he die?He may be very slow but he is not very stupid to die like that.
The country is sick,why must it exempt the President?From the look of things,this man needs more than prayers.I suspect he is using a chinko(made in China)battery.Atleast for once,we have a President who is giving out details of his movement.

lmao

ummmmmm he needs to stay alive afterall

desthan:

abi una want make the poor fellow crash as our naira don crash, abeg make una leave umaru make im go smoke small joint, wetin concern agbero with overload, afterall TO SERVE NIGERIA is not by force WITH ALL MY MIGHT

serious ROFLMAO!!!

well deserved after huffing and puffing without doing much

maybe that might just rejuvenate him and get him more active, maybe!!

It was announced everywhere, wasnt it?

I think they should increase the Leave Days, they should make it like 208 weeks

He needs it.

Pele.

Mikeansy thank you o, apart frm ur yan on Ribadu, you dey yan correct sumtimes,


My brethren I weep for this country because we have and are going to waste four years.


Looking for legislation to have uninterrupted power and so fourth

May god help us

Though i am quite irritated to say the least i am finding it difficult to muster anything in the way of sympathy for the nation. No one complained and talked or most importantly acted when the bed was being laid, it was all apparently to "stabilise" the country and for the "interest" of the nation, so i guess its a bit childish to now come and start shouting and huffing and puffing that the bed was not well laid when it was obvious from the start. What a paradox, this desire for things that nations out of hard work and sacrifice enjoy without any desire to exercice the principles that brought about such development in nationhood and growth of such nations. Instead of coming online to exhibit the though understandable but now predictable "outrage" or "dissatisfaction" won't such energy be better extended in beginning to get involved to do all we can to make sure the next elections are different and also to make sure that something in the way of progress is at least salvaged from this trainwreck that is on a national scale? Or is there contentment in complaining and watching the ushering in of a Yar Adua second term so that we can once again come online to self indulgently express our all important "dissatisfaction" or "outrage" for the situation that was left to happen?

The saying is true, "Nigerians are greedy, they can never be satisfied, even if you gave them the whole world". What is your business even if he wants to go for ten years leave after all what he has done, can you do the same? Can't we be grateful at least for once? Hasn't he tried enough? His first few days in office he Reduced fuel price and also reduced the rate of VAT, still we say he hasn't tried. in his administration we have this free education, still he hasn't tried, even with his seven point agenda he hasn't tried, now he has reduced fuel price and we are can now buy dollars even at retail from the CBN at NGN 144.01 and still he hasn't tried, ah! Nigerians! When OBJ was in Office, did he achieve that much even with his 2nd Term? Ok think of this: If you were in his shoes, would you have done much? Hasn't he tried? He served Nigeria as a Governor and Now he is still serving her as a President and the EFCC is not at his heels. Is it not enough? Look! it's high time we begin to think about our own selves and pray for Enablement for him to lead us well rather than criticizing every move he makes. Kai! Nigerians! May God Forgive and Deliver us!

iibeueaue:

The saying is true, "Nigerians are greedy, they can never be satisfied, even if you gave them the whole world". What is your business even if he wants to go for ten years leave after all what he has done, can you do the same? Can't we be grateful at least for once? Hasn't he tried enough? His first few days in office he Reduced fuel price and also reduced the rate of VAT, still we say he hasn't tried. in his administration we have this free education, still he hasn't tried, even with his seven point agenda he hasn't tried, now he has reduced fuel price and we are can now buy dollars even at retail from the CBN at NGN 144.01 and still he hasn't tried, ah! Nigerians! When OBJ was in Office, did he achieve that much even with his 2nd Term? Ok think of this: If you were in his shoes, would you have done much? Hasn't he tried? He served Nigeria as a Governor and Now he is still serving her as a President and the EFCC is not at his heels. Is it not enough? Look! it's high time we begin to think about our own selves and pray for Enablement for him to lead us well rather than criticizing every move he makes. Kai! Nigerians! May God Forgive and Deliver us!

oh really? you make yaradua sound like some populace loving socialist.

why panicking? Mr. President's present in the office make no different jare. he is just a caved wood bedded on a holy ground

don't let that bother you my people