I was just listening to Goodluck Jonathan's first address to the nation. I really like the part that there is no winner and loser; the speech was comprehensive too and the speed of the speech was also a good development.

Congratulations Mr. President!

http:///nigerian-senate-votes-to-empower-goodluck-jonathan.html

excerpt from link;

[b]ABUJA, Nigeria — The Nigerian Senate voted Tuesday to empower the vice president to take over for the nation’s ill and absent president, potentially ending a constitutional crisis that has engulfed Africa’s most populous nation.

The Senate voted to authorize Goodluck Jonathan to take over as president and commander in chief while President Umaru Yar’Adua remains hospitalized in Saudi Arabia. A similar motion sat Tuesday before the Nigerian House of Representatives. If the House passes the measure, Jonathan could be immediately sworn in as president.

Yar’Adua, who long has suffered from kidney ailments, traveled out of the country several times for what his advisers said were medical checkups before he left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Nov. 23. He was admitted to a hospital the next day.

As questions mounted, his physician released a statement saying Yar’Adua had acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart.

Since Yar’Adua left Nigeria, a major kidnapping and a pipeline attack have occurred in the oil-rich Niger Delta despite an amnesty program for militants led by Yar’Adua. Religious violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria also left more than 300 dead and thousands displaced.

And a young Nigerian attempted to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit, sparking new security regulations for travelers from the West African nation.

While Nigerian law allows for a smooth transition of power from Yar’Adua to the vice president, the 58-year-old president left without following any of those procedures.

While the federal government says Jonathan has been acting in Yar’Adua’s place without the constitutional procedures, protesters have taken to the street warning the country will remain rudderless until something changes.

Yar’Adua has given one interview since being out of the country. In January, he told the BBC that he hoped to recover and return to power.

Senate President David Mark said that telephone interview served as all the notification needed to allow Jonathan to take power.

“The BBC interview is as good as the letter envisioned by the constitution,” Mark said.

The House was expected to take up the similar motion later Tuesday.[/b]


now where's the speech or am i missing something