He's Baaaaaaaack!!! Yara Must Go!

Yara must go!

Quoting from today's (January 19 2010) Nigerian Guardian, here's our friend, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, enjoy!

Meanwhile, a member of the House representing Oredo Federal constituency in Edo State, Patrick Obahiagbon, yesterday re-echoed the call for the President to comply with the provision of Section 145 of the Constitution by writing formally to the National Assembly about his health status and allow Jonathan to act as President..

Addressing a press conference in the National Assembly, the lawmaker declared: "I speak not against President Umaru Yar'Adua nor do I speak for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. But I speak robustly for the stability of our polity. I speak on the side of constitutional democracy. I speak for the reclamation of our nation state from the hands of apostles of political gambadoism, and I speak against providing an opportunity and ready excuse for power adventurists and unbridled constitutional putschism.''

Asked whether his position would not conflict with that of his party, PDP, he said: "We would have PDP and other political parties only when there is stable democracy. I have just spoken in support of constitutionality. The PDP constitution and the party itself must be subordinated to the clear position of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic."

He continued; "Since no mortal has the responsibility for his health infrastructure, it would amount to a glaring and depreciable poverty of spiritual obesity for the president's state of health to attract public odium rather than compassion, and it is against this background therefore that as part of humanity, I deeply commiserate with Mr. President and his family, and do wish him a speedy recovery. I am however ... bewildered that rather than Mr. President's compassionable ambience, or pitiable situation, reawakening in us a sense of national unity and cohesion, what we have seen is a situation where national centrifugal forces have been malodorously unleashed on the country." According to him, undue overheating of the polity is being encouraged by a section of the political class who have chosen not to learn from history.

"Otherwise, why would Mr. President or his gatekeepers not advise him to have recourse to Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution, which, if acted on, has the efficacy of conferring the status of an Acting President on the Vice President.

"Mr. President may not be in the proper state of mind to have averted himself to Section 145 when he sought medical attention in Saudi Arabia, but having, to the glory of God, been strong enough to sign the supplementary budget and talked to the BBC, is it out of place for Mr. President to muster the same energy in the implementation of Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution, and thus enabling his Vice President to function as Acting President?" he queried.

Need I say more.....?