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Nigerian Vice-President to stay in charge
Nigeria’s vice-president will continue to lead the nation while the ailing president recuperates, a presidential adviser has said.
In a statement issued last week, Olusegun Adeniyi, a presidential spokesman, said Goodluck Jonathan would continue to serve as acting president.
“After being discharged by the team of medical experts overseeing his treatment in… Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua returned to the presidential villa, Abuja early this morning,” Adeniyi said.
“While the president completes his recuperation, Vice-President Jonathan will continue to oversee the affairs of state,” he said.
The announcement comes after Yar’Adua returned to Nigeria early on the 24th of February, Wednesday morning after more than three months abroad at a Saudi Arabian hospital.
Two aeroplanes arrived at the presidential wing of Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport where one of them was met by an ambulance, the Reuters news agency, citing a witness, reported.
The ambulance later left under a heavy police escort. There was no immediate word on Yar’Adua’s condition.
Following a power vacuum because of Yar’Adua’s long absence from the country, Nigeria’s parliament installed Jonathan as the acting head of state early this month.
Reports said that while Jonathan had established himself as a leader, constitutionally power still lay with Yar’Adua.