I was relieved (laughter). Not in a bad way but I mean, it’s not easy being queen- ‘uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’. You are exposed to a lot of things. ‘People like you; people hate you; people talk about you…. You don’t have your life to yourself anymore.

It is just like yesterday. But it was twenty seven years ago that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as head of the then ruling military junta proclaimed democracy unrealistic in the immediate future in Nigeria.

Certainly these are the not the best of times for Nigeria’s loyal incumbent Vice President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as he is said to be receiving an overdose of what he did not bargain for while seeking the exalted number two citizen’s office.

Since late Monday morning this week, opposing forces in the Nigeria constitutional crisis began to move decisively. Our president in absentia spoke for the first time, and within 10 hours of his speech, the opposition to his constitutional violations was up in arms in their thousands virtually rejecting Mr. President’s excuse for his disregard of the law of the land.

We cannot do anything about his ill-health. Nigerians should go and read the 1999 constitution, section 144-145.
The President is recovering and will soon be back. Though he is the president, he can fall sick and he can die. So, Yar’Adua remains the president.

The controversy is unnecessary. All these agitations to empower the VP as Acting President is just a diversionary tension to heat up the polity. They want to create a problem between the president and the VP or to create ill-feelings between them in their display of ignorance of the constitution.

Out of the miasma of what must be a trying period in their lives, the AbdulMutallab family hass emerged with impeccable conduct, sitting astride of the situation and calmly riding the storm, Thank heavens; no blood was spilled, no bones broken. We can soon put all this behind us. And we’d better

The Presidency is committed to a free and fair election. And he has said it many times before now and even when we spoke. If you look at Guardian of April, 30th 2009, the President said, “on the day of my inauguration in May 2007, I pledged to undertake this electoral reforms.

“Umaru, are you dead? They say you are dead”. Obasanjo had put a call through to Yar’Adua at a campaign ground. This drama was staged on live television to refute rumours almost three years ago, that Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, then presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had died in the German hospital where he sought medical succour.

SOUTH-SOUTH Governors and a number of prominent leaders of the zone have unusually chosen to keep mum rather than speak their minds and that of the people on the burning issue of whether or not Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who hails from the zone should take over as Acting President from ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, who will be spending his 54th day today (January 16) in a Saudi Arabia hospital.