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Anxiety Lingers Over Yar'Adua.
Byline: Leon Usigbe
AS anxiety lingers over President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the man he defeated in the 2007 general elections, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), wants Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to assume full executive powers so that the nation can move forward in the absence of the ailing number one citizen.
Buhari, the candidate of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2007 polls, made his position known on the president, who was said to be recuperating in King Fahd Hospital, Saudi Arabia, after successfully undergoing renal transplant surgery, just as many members of the National Assembly declined comments on the president's ill-health on the grounds that they were not aware of the situation.
The only member of the House of Representatives who spoke on the matter, Hon. Leo …
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