Date Published: 06/21/09

Dear Sir,

Is President Yar'Adua temperamental?

Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If I were him, he should not allow in any form to worry when dealing with brickbats thrown at him otherwise he would always be led to wrong methods of handling issues.

Let us consider few of the bad ways he handled some matters: Ordering the shutdown of Channels TV when it happened; taking Leadership newspaper to court for reporting (rightly or wrongly) the state of his health; the evolving open fight between him and his successor, Governor Shema; replying the former FCT Minister el-Rufai’s on revelations about the making of ‘EFCC clean’ Governer Umaru Yar’Adua and how he was made the President. It is alleged that President has requested the EFCC to bring before him Bola Tinubu’s case file just because Tinubu had criticized the President – front page story of Nigerian Compass newspaper of Sunday June 14, 2009.

Few days back in the media, the President wasted precious time insisting that CBN Governor Sanusi’s advice to him to scale down the 7-Point Agenda was in bad faith. Though the President has the right to hire and fire, he should not try to touch the position of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on account of this issue. In all, the President carried on as if he is temperamental. Please Mr. President, kool-kool temper; after all we are in a democratic setting.

Chief Okon Nseobong Akpan

Ndenoyo Village

Onna LG

Akwa Ibom State.