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Since last November when Yar’Adua was flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment, Tanimu’s influence has grown enough to have drowned that of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, to whom the President did not officially hand over. Tanimu has been effectively assisted by Turai, Yar’Adua’s wife; Yusuf Tilde, Yar’Adua’s Chief Security Officer; and Sayyadi Abba Ruma, Agriculture Minister; Abba Aji, Special Adviser to Yar’Adua on National Assembly Matters; Yayale Ahmed, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Michael Aondoakaa, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. Tanimu, Turai, Tilde and Abba Ruma are reckoned to be the only government functionaries who have been in touch with Yar’Adua since the President left Nigeria. The Chief Economic Adviser’s portfolio has greatly expanded–unofficially–to include speaking on behalf of the President and government. <<< MORE @ THE NEWS >>>
Yar'Adua's men map out fresh plan: The camp composing, but not limited to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa (SAN); Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Abba Ruma; and Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu; has been having series of meetings and consultations aimed at neutralising the lockjam created by President Yar’Adua’s long absence from the country and his non-formal handing over to the vice president. <<< MORE @ VANGUARD
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ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declared that Vice President Jonathan Goodluck is empowered by the 1999 Constitution to exercise, in the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, all the powers vested in him, including signing of sensitive documents, so far such powers are delegated to him. The presiding high court judge, Justice Dan Abutu made the pronouncement while interpreting the meanings and intendments of sections 5(1) and 148 (1) of the 1999 constitution in a suit brought by a lawyer, Mr. Christopher Onwuekwe. Onwuekwe, in his suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/10/2010, had requested the high court to declare that in the absence of President Yar’Adua who is receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia, the Vice President, by virtue of the provisions of Section 5(1) and 148 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, could exercise all the powers vested in the President in the interest of peace, order and good governance pending when his boss, Yar’Adua, would resume office. He sued the Attorney General of the Federation and the Executive Council of the Federation. MORE @ VANGUARD
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