The sudden return to Nigeria of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua and the subsequent melodrama that is currently at play within the corridor of power has drawn the eerie of Lagos based Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Chief A.G Giwa-Amu. 

The fiery Lawyer known for bearing his mind on very sensitive issue that could pose danger to the corporate existence of the geographical expression that is called Nigeria, has cautioned members of the Yar’Adua kitchen cabinet including the egocentric Turai not to push their luck
too far.

Wondering why these elements have decided to make a non-existence issue from an occurrence that is well managed in other climes, he queried “why do they ask us to pray for our dear President in the first instance when they know that they were going to shield the result of our prayers from us. “How do we know if our prayers are effective or not? It is only when they let us know the President’s current state of health that we can then redirect our prayers. For instance, if all our efforts have only smoldered his headache, and we are told it is now stomach ache”, then we can go back to God in supplication for remedy for stomach ache. That of course we cannot do with this unwarranted shielding and blanketing. Are they implying that we are not amply qualified to know the results of our collective prayers; a fuming Giwa-Amu enthused?

Taking a swipe at some political jobbers and sycophants who had poured invectives on well-meaning Nigerians who recently demanded that the President throw in the towel so as to take care of his health dubbing them unpatriotic and wishing the President dead, he submit that with the unfolding events, Nigerians now know those who are unpatriotic who actually wished the
President dead.

Speaking further, he said it is not just sufficient for Nigerians to believe hook line and sinker what the President spokesman on Media Segun Adeniyi said neither is one comfortable with the planned briefing of the Acting President by Turai, stressing that the drift that is precarious to the
nation body politics should be halted before we all start blaming ourselves.

He advised the First Lady Turai to please allow her husband to recuperate in peace, stressing that power no matter how long you hold on to it, is transient.  It is only a living President that has first lady he concludes.