Date Published: 03/01/10

Dear Editor,

Yar'Adua: Even mother could not see son

The truth seems to be emerging on how this nation has been and is being run by the Yar’Adua Presidency. Reading how tough it was for all the groups that wasted our nation’s resources used in travelling to Saudi Arabia without setting their eyes on our President, one does not need to look too far to understand what has been going on.

Starting from the so-called signing of the Appropriation Bill by ailing Yar’Adua, to the purported BBC interview and including those fruitless journeys by government officials, to what Yar’Adua’s media adviser, Adeniyi, said and counter-said as being a statement from Yar’Adua himself concerning Jonathan as Vice President and Acting President respectively, are all falsifications. Then one asks; why should a whole country like Nigeria be so in disgrace as if we have empty heads.

Since the President Yar’Adua’s purported return to Nigeria, no one, I mean no one has been allowed to see him: the acting President Jonathan has not been allowed; Hajia Dada Yar’Adua (Umaru Yar’Adua’s mother) who came with some other members of the family was not allowed to see her son; the masses who would have loved to see their President on television even in a bad situation so as to cull some sympathy; nobody has been allowed except Turai who people have started labelling ‘Queen Jezebel of the Bible’. She should save herself that name because persons that read Bible know how Jezebel behaved and ended.

This now brings to fore the rumour making the rounds that Turai was originally the wife of Shehu Yar’Adua and not Umaru Yar’Adua and that all the daughters being paraded were of Shehu as the rumour insisted that Umaru has two sons only from his real wife who are never heard or seen. Poor Mama Yar’Adua; she has to contend with all these because she had both Shehu and Umaru as sons. But why should Turai refuse mother from seeing her son? Hajia Dada has in Nigeria Tribune of 1/3/10 appeal to Hajia Turai that her son must not die. She requested Turai to release her son and promised to meet with Obj and Gowon to help beg Turai for her.

Dr. Jerome Jiga, 7 Shehu Close, Zaria, Kaduna State

jeromejiga@yahoo.com