PROTESTERS DEMAND TO SEE PRESIDENT YAR'DUA

 
“For more than 100 days, Nigerians have not seen or heard from President Yar’Adua since he was evacuated to Saudi Arabia for treatment. For the three months he reportedly stayed in an intensive care unit of a Saudi hospital, several of his aides continued to claim that the President was getting better. Some claimed he had started intense physical exercises. It is now more than two weeks since he was brought back to Nigeria in the dead of the night. We are yet to see our President, or even hear from him.

''it is unacceptable that ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been incommunicado since he left the country for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009'', this was the cry of the Save Nigeria Group, leading a mamoth of protesters yesterday in ABuja.

This dysfunctional electoral system threatens democracy and good governance in Nigeria,” SNG said.
SNG’s National Coordinator, Pastor Tunde Bakare, who presented the letter containing the group’s requests to government, listed their demands as follows:

*An end to the invisible Presidency of Yar’Adua by activating Section 144 of the Constitution so that presidential powers will be fully accountable;

*The dissolution of the present Executive Council of the Federation which has largely collaborated with presidential aides to foist this crisis on the nation; and

*Quick and thorough implementation of the Uwais Report on Electoral Reform starting with the immediate removal of Professor Maurice Iwu as Chairman and the reconstitution of INEC with persons of impeccable integrity and competence.

Protesters under the umbrella of SNG had gathered at the Fountain Square before Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja by 9am from where they marched to the junction of the Presidential Villa.

...But really, SHOULD we protest to see our own president? the one that either way[make i no go talk the one wey pass my mouth...***winking] we 'democratically' elected? MUST we  write countless appeals just to have him listen to our problems? OR is there any other wsay...that we can use in getting him to at least HEAR US? Even if HE does not want to talk to us????