Date Published: 03/01/10

UNDEDSS demands Yar'Adua's removal!

“President Yar’Adua must cease to be Nigeria’s leader, if his status continues to be shrouded in secrecy, or if he is found to be incapacitated, or if he is found to be in breach of the 1999 Constitution; and this processes must be concluded before or by Tuesday, March 9, 2010!” demands UNDEDSS, the United Nigeria Energy Development Security Strategy.

Rising from its 2nd Emergency Executive Meeting in less than one week, which held in Lagos, on Monday, March 01, 2010, UNDEDSS, the Professor Pat Utomi-led coalition of Niger Delta ethnic nationalities and civil society, demanded that Acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan set the ball rolling by immediately directing that he sees “the invisible President”, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

“The season of playing ‘nice guy’ to others’ anti-democratic acts is definitely over,” declared Professor Pat Utomi, even as he went on demystify Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua’s putative powers as to who can be allowed to gain access to President Yar’Adua, and who cannot.

Professor Utomi reminded “all 150 million Nigerians that, by choosing to lead them as President, Alhaji Yar’Adua, had willingly and wittingly made himself the peoples’ property. Nobody, including his family members, can stop Acting President Jonathan, as the people’s supreme agent, for now, from having unlimited access to his principal, especially at this pivotal period of our struggling democracy.”

In like vein, Mr. Tony Uranta, UNDEDSS Secretary-General, asserted that “in the event that the Acting President is hampered in any way, by any person, persons, group or groups, Nigerians demand that Dr. Jonathan must deploy all powers at his command to remove such obstacles immediately.”

The UNDEDSS Scribe posited further that “the Acting President must immediately remove all those who have been compromised in the national security breach that saw Nigerian troops being deployed, as in a coup d’état, without the knowledge or authorization of the Commander-in-Chief. He must also, without further prevarication, drop every other government official whose acts have bordered on treason or insubordination!”

Using the stalled post-amnesty process as an example, Uranta warned that “the anomaly of not having Jonathan fully in charge is causing grumblings in the creeks and anomie in the nation at large; and, if not speedily and masterfully corrected, this dangerous drifting of the nation could further stress existing strains on our nation’s fragile unity.”

UNDEDSS therefore demanded that “the Executive Council of the Federation and the National Assembly should prove their allegiance to the Constitution and people of Nigeria, by executing whichever constitutional procedure is necessary to compel President Yar’Adua to cease being President of Nigeria, so he can better concentrate on improving his health; and fully install Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s substantive President, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of Nigeria, before Tuesday, March 9, 2010.”

Finally, UNDEDSS hailed the inclusion of esteemed national statesmen, retired General Theophilus Y. Danjuma and Chief Isaac Jemide, into the governing process in acting capacity.