Date Published: 01/06 /10

Yar'Adua's call to VP, Mark, Bankole: Gov. Saraki lies again

Musa Yar'Adua	Goodluck Jonathan	Bukola Saraki

There are indications that Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki, lied to Nigerians when he claimed the sick Nigeria President, Umaru Yar’Adua, spoke with Vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President, David Mark, and Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, from his sick bed in Saudi Arabia few days ago.

The next move, pointblanknews learnt, is another conference call to ex Presidents and Head of States.

Sources close to the President told pointblanknews on Wednesday that the President’s health has not improved, and that he is still in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Sources told pointblanknews that when he speaks, his wife Turai could barely hear him, and that he is not coming home any time soon.

Shortly after the PDP Governor’s forum in Abuja, Saraki who chairs that gathering, told newsmen that the President spoke with the three top public officers for about four minutes on the phone. He urged politicians who are clamoring for an acting President to watch their utterances so as not to incite people.

But sources at the Presidential Villa and National Assembly contradicted this claim. This is coming on the heels of the earlier lie told by Saraki when he claimed few weeks ago that he and a couple of his colleagues were at the President’s bedside, and that he was responding to treatment. It all turned out to be a hoax, because as at that time the President was in intensive care. Only Turai, his wife and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia had access.

Pointblanknews learnt that the Vice President merely chuckled when he heard the news of his brief chat with his boss because it did not happen. Neither Yar’Adua nor his wife has spoken to the VP since the President fell sick. All the trips Turai had made to the Vila from Saudi, including the recent nocturnal trip, she had not spoken a word to the Vice President.

This grand plot to hoodwink Nigerians about the president’s health and tactically delay the emergence of an Acting President is being spearheaded by the PDP Governors led by Saraki. The Federal Executive Council and some key leaders of the National Assembly are in on it, pointblanknews sources revealed.

There are also moves by the PDP Governors forum to prevail on the Vice President to be patient and accept the status quo until his boss returns. Sources at the Villa disclosed that Governors of Gombe, Katsina, Anambra and a host of others were spotted at the waiting room of the VP on Wednesday .

The latest Saraki, it was further learnt was to nip in the bud, the widely reported emergency session being planned by the National Assembly which resumes next Tuesday . Sources said the strategy is to calm the frayed nerves of some of those members’ tagged ‘busy bodies’

Said our source “ He never spoke with none of them, but since they are all PDP, the plot is to stick to the script. Even the Vice President found it funny when he heard the news, but he has no choice but stick to the script as well even though he doesn’t like the whole drama” Another source said, “ I am not sure the thing happened but, if it did , it could be a ploy to calm the some members of the National Assembly who are reported to be planning an emergency session over the President’s unexplained absence’