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Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by McKren(m): 3:16am On Jan 30, 2009 |
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Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by Kobojunkie: 3:20am On Jan 30, 2009 |
First off. Please tell me this is a joke -- I mean you trying to draw some comparison between the habits of the american president and what we have for a president in Nigeria. PLEASE, for goodness sake, tell me this is a joke!! |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by McKren(m): 3:31am On Jan 30, 2009 |
I have drawn our attention to the American situation because the current constitution is modelled arround the American constitution. I think emotions are flying and people are getting excersized because we 'think' we know the President is sick. Well his looks lately suggests as much. But if the President claims to be well and the Senate President does not think he has any reason to subject the President to health check then no one has got any proof. As for the quigmire in the Senate, I think the content of the press release by Yayale Ahmed (SGF) may have given more rise to the controversy than the position of the constitution itself. Maybe all the SGF needed to say was the President was proceeding on holiday, he did not need to suggest someone else is in charge. Even section 145 of the constitution which says 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. The bit in bold suggests its the prerogative of the President to inform the NASS that the VP should be in charge. 'whenever' does not mean 'must'. If anything the President's handlers bungled the situation again and if their is anything we should be worried about it is why he is going on holiday since he is not sick in the midst of our crashing economy. |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by McKren(m): 3:37am On Jan 30, 2009 |
Kobojunkie: I am not joking, see answer above. The issue is more of a constitutional crisis than a Presidential habit. To better understand where the very ambigous section 145 of our constitution might be heading to requires refering to American constitution which is mainly the backbone of our constitution. I think we should ignore the trivialities of whether Yar'adua writes a letter to David Mark or not and hold him to task on running the Govt. which has been so sluggish on everything. Well just my opinion for now, your interpretation of section 145 is welcome and I am willing to agree if you convince me to accept otherwise |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by FrankC3: 11:03am On Jan 30, 2009 |
I am struggling to take my eyes off the incompetence of the man at the center and focus on the constitutional issue at hand. The constitution specifies in section 145 thus: "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." I am not a lawyer, but to my mind, this section struggles to stop any possible instance of usurpation by the vice president, the job of the president. The emphasis here is on voluntary declaration and i sympathize with the constitution to that extent. The main issues here are 'declaration' (which i think was done by the presidency) and to 'them' which the constitution states must be to the senate/Speaker, House of Reps. Te presidency instead 'declared' to the press. The manner of the declaration shall be written and it is after then that the president shall be taken to be on vacation, otherwise the senate is right to say that he 'absconded'. It is high time we started asking questions of this loud-mouthed AGF and other concerned law officers of this 'federation' what they are doing. The president may not really be wrong as a person here, but is legal team are(this is to my mind) and not only do Nigerias deserve to demand accountability to them, but also demand the right thing to fromt he president- which i think is a summary sack of the legal team, i mean all!!! I may be wrong though, the lawyers may have a contrary opinion on this. |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by McKren(m): 5:05pm On Jan 30, 2009 |
Thats another valid question, why did they go to the press rather than the senate. Political expediency over doing what is right. |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by Moves: 6:34pm On Jan 30, 2009 |
What advice can AGF give, the Guy is Cluless, His is too busy collecting kickback from eX-thieving Govs to care, has he commented on this issue NO, he doesnt deem it important enough, On the Other hand I think that the powerful Cabal surrounding the president does not want the VP near that office at all, hence the manner in which the president went about the vacation matter, Hence making the VP incapable of making a decision so for the next 2 weeks all act of governance is stalled, Anyway no one will notice, I sincerely doubt that there is no ulterior motives behind this, as if this is a mistake then the AGF should be made to answer, |
Re: Was President Yar'adua Really Wrong by Nobody: 6:45pm On Jan 30, 2009 |
Goodluck is as useless as his Boss. The real reason Yar'adua chose him is because he waits on the line doing nothing even though the rest of the world is tumbling. Remember how he handled the Alamesiegha situation. So never expect anything from Jonathan, he will not speak nor react. That is his kind of politics. It is good to some degree though. |
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