Saudi trip: Tura’i bars ministers •••Sorry, you can’t see Yar’Adua

Strong indications emerged at the weekend that the visit of the six ministers mandated by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to visit ailing President Musa Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia may end up as a infutility.

A source in the Presidency who is also close to the first family, but pleaded anonymity, said the First Lady, Hajia Tura’i Yar’Adua, had given stern instructions to officials at the hospital where the president was admitted in Jeddah not to allow the visiting ministers access to the president.

Members of the government’s team include, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ahmed Yayale, Agriculture and Water Resources Minster, Sayyadi Abba-Ruma, Health Minister, Babatunde Osotimehin, Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Adetokunbo Kayode and Petroleum Minster, Rilwanu Lukman.
Information available to Daily Sun as at press time on the movement of the ministers to Saudi Arabia were sketchy as it could not be confirmed whether they had left or not. But the arrangement by the FEC was for the ministers to leave on Sunday and return by Tuesday and then brief the council on the outcome of the trip on Wednesday.

Ahead of the visit, the Federal Government has formally written to the Saudi Monarch, King Fahd Abdulaziz, seeking permission for the delegate to ascertain the health status of President Yar’Adua.
The decision of the government to write ahead of the visit was to ensure access to the president who was reported to have been moved to a restricted military facility in the Saudi kingdom.
It was not clear whether the letter forwarded to the Saudi king would facilitate access to Yar’Adua, but the Daily Sun source said Hajia Turai was also contemplating leaving the city of Jeddah for the period that would be spent by the ministers, to avoid being persuaded by them, which could in turn make her change her earlier decision.

Daily Sun equally learnt that, the first lady was strategizing on ways to frustrate the efforts of the visiting ministers. Her actions, according to the source, was to thwart any move by the FEC to declare Yar’Adua unfit to rule after the ministers would have retuned from Saudi Arabia and made their observations known.
“You know if the ministers are unable to see the president, it may be extremely difficult for FEC to declare Yar’Adua unfit to rule,” the source said.

President Yar’Adua has been on admission for acute pericarditis in Saudi Arabia since November 23, 2009.
Also, it was learnt that, the Minister of Health, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, was reluctant to go for the trip because his appointment as a minister was fast-tracked by the first lady, who was said to have a hand in his nomination for the post.

Again, the source added that, Osotimehin was also reluctant because being a medical doctor himself, the responsibility of writing the report based on his observations on the state of health of the president would definitely fall on him. And that, the source said, was capable of pitching him against the first lady, who could feel the ministers was disloyal.
Daily Sun’s gathered that only three people have access to the president in the Saudi hospital; the chief security officer to the president, his aide-de-camp and the first lady.
Since the president’s admission in the hospital in November last year, several top people in government have made unsuccessful efforts to see the him.

On the list was a delegation of the Governors’ Forum led by its Chairman, Dr. Bukola Saraki and comprising Gabriel Suswan of Benue State; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State; Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, who is also an in-law to the president and the president’s Economic Adviser, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu. They traveled to Jeddah on November 29 last year, but were not allowed to see the president.
Again, on December 26, 2009, the president’s Principal Secretary, Mr. David Edevbie, also traveled to Saudi Arabia but was not allowed to see his boss.

A delegation of the House of Representatives, led by Shehu Agaie (Niger State) and comprising Ali Ndume (Borno), Patrick Ikhariale (Edo State), Moruf Fatai (Lagos State) and Jibril Adamu (Kaduna State) also went to Saudi Arabia on February 9 but after waiting for five days without seeing Yar’Adua, they returned to Nigeria.
And just last week, a delegation of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by the party’s National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, also traveled to Jeddah but was reportedly barred from seeing the president.

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INCREDIBLE! This man excretes once in 7 wks

He eats, drinks and moves about like a normal human being. But his alimentary canal is patently tainted with abnormal behaviour. He does not empty his bowels within the time frame expected of a normal person even after eating with a ravenous appetite.

Tall, lanky, active and friendly Sanusi Ibrahim, 46, is telling anybody who cares to listen with pride that he does not excrete as they do. That he is at home with any kind of consumable food he chooses to ingest at anytime of the day. Sanusi says he could demolish double the ratio his contemporaries devour: “I don’t tolerate hunger for one moment. That’s why I ensure that there’s always something edible by my side even when I am not at home.”

But there is another oddity peculiar to Sanusi. The smelly, gaseous air content he discharges in quick succession everyday leaves him as a man whose rate of flatulence is unequalled: “Instead of going to toilet, I just find solace in passing out very, very loud and offensive gas, one round after another for some moments in order to get a relief. I do this at my convenient time and location without causing discomfort to people around me.

That’s why if I am together with you and you see me moving away, don’t complain because it’s in your own interest. I do that, else you regret being near me.
“I pass excreta once in seven weeks or thereabout and this is not causing me to fall ill at all. And after all this long time when the shit comes, it is as short as my index finger, only that it is very fat and as hard as a stone. That is the cause of my predicament, because it pains me while passing through my anus. The symptom of its arrival is also a very painful feeling at my two upper ribs. Whenever it is two days for me to start feeling like going to the toilet, my two ribs will begin to pain me. It is as painful as labour of a pregnant woman because within the period, I will almost lose my senses.

“That is why sometime, in spite of the pain I go through in my ribs, I defer going to toilet for as long as two days until it goes beyond my control. And in most cases, even my family members do not witness when I go to toilet. I have it as a habit to go to a distant place away from the city to excrete so that I can see what exactly comes out of my stomach. But nothing seems to be different all these years.

“My problem started since my secondary school days when I was about 17 years of age during the middle years of my schooling. It started with the same symptom I pass through and the same type of excreta I discharge. Since then, I have never suffered from any ailment, although some people are insinuating that it is a problem from some evil spirit (jinn).

“As for the treatment, I have gone to the hospital several times. I have seen various medical doctors, Mallams and traditional healers, all to no avail. As a matter of fact, I am only bothered with this problem because of the pains I go through whenever I go to the toilet. It is not because I don’t go to toilet like other people do.”

Asked if his peculiar problem has not affected his sexual prowess. Sanusi exclaimed: “What? That is where you don’t know my hidden wonders. In fact, my financial constraint is the only reason why I am not having four wives. But naturally I am too much for one.”
Doctors contacted by Daily Sun, however, expressed reservations as to the normalcy of the alimentary system of Sanusi. They believe that something unhealthy must be associated with his constipation-laden colon, or else his body chemistry must be extra-ordinary.

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Why govs dumped Yar’Adua

Information is gradually filtering out from the presidency on why the 36 governors dumped President Umaru YarÁdua for then Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to act as President.

A presidency source had told Saturday Vanguard that the governors finally got tired of the lies strewn by the ailing Presidents kitchen cabinet. The source named the then attorney General and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondakaa as spokesman of the four-man cabinet cabal.

The National Assembly and Nigerians had, as stipulated by the constitution, been waiting for ailing president YarÁdua to transmit a written letter to the Senate on his medical trip to Saudi Arabia so that Jonathan could assume full presidential powers.

The governors were said to have been roused to action when they realized that all the government officials that were said to have been speaking to the bedridden President did not speak to him

The governors, who have interacted with YarÁdua said he is a blunt and forthright person, shorn of the shenanigans which his aides and kitchen cabinet had made of him.

The lying machine that was the kitchen cabinet had painted a picture that was not the president.

The governors realized that they were painting the President in bad light forcing them to conclude that something was wrong.
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Aondoakaa should face treason charge –AC chieftain

Hon. Cletus Obun, the Action Congress(AC) Cross River State Chairman has said that the nation is gradually drifting apart. He queried: “ What is the ruling PDP doing with our revered constitution where there is no Commander-in-chief?PDP is committing treason, and every person who has spoken in support of the fact that the president can rule from anywhere should be on trial for treason; for me Aondokaa should have been facing treason charge for now as the Chief Law Officer of this country.”

Hon. Obun, who is a former member of the Cross River House of Assembly lashed out at the proponents of president Yar Adua ruling from abroad saying “this is a complete recipe for disintegration and we don’t need anybody to announce to us on radio that the constitution has been flouted.

We don’t operate the constitution anymore,” adding “If this country is tired of staying together, let everyone go to his tent. We have no share in the house of PDP. We have no share in the government of PDP, because we are being ridiculed intentionally, and I do not think this is what we pray for. This is not what Awo, Zik, Balewa, Sar Aduana, Abiola and others fought for.”
Excerpts:

Constitutional crisis resulting from absence of the president
Much has been said in this matter. But what has not been said about the absence of the president is that Nigeria is now operating a state of anarchy. We are operating in the present time in animal kingdom and even worse than that. Not even in the enlightened animal specie of the monkey category where we are supposed to come from.

You only need to go and watch a group of monkeys and you will know they have a leader. But to have a country like Nigeria with 140 million people, and no leader.
The leader runs away and abdicates his throne, and responsibilities expecting the country to go down with him.

Some have even compared him to a Sampson syndrome; this is beyond a Sampson syndrome because Sampson consciously addressed himself. But we have a situation where there is no Commander-in-Chief. So PDP is committing treason, and every person who has spoken in support of the fact that the president can rule from anywhere should be on trial for treason; for me Aondokaa should have been facing treason charge for now as the Chief Law Officer of this country.

The situation we have found ourselves is saddening and is a quiet invitation to insurrection; a loud and arrogant display of ignorance by PDP and their cohorts at FEC and it is something that Nigerians must not accept. I tell you, each time people mention the word coup, others get the jitters and start blaming those who made mention of it.

But this is a complete recipe for disintegration and we don’t need anybody to announce to us on radio that the constitution has been suspended. We don’t operate the constitution anymore. Somehow there is that kind of breakdown of law and order within the leadership of the country and it is dangerous to allow a vacuum. Nobody, who has fought for this country in any small way, shed blood, lost his liberty even for one hour, will like what is happening to us now.

This country cannot be entrusted to those who even fought against this democracy , and today they want it to collapse again, because they paid no price for it. Look at the cabinet that is being paraded. Most of those people sitting down with Yar’Adua, sat with Abacha and said that there was no way for democracy; that Abacha should rule this country. The Maduekwe’s of this world are still sitting and today they are the ones deciding on whether or not we should have a constitution. If you give him a chance, he will resurrect Abacha.

Those are the people we are now asking to do the right thing. Do they have principles and morality? Nigeria has the misfortune of having such kinds of people being recycled on a daily basis. They are all pretending to have the principles that hold the country together. They have nothing to show, and at every turn, they do everything for the for this country to crumble with them.

I do not know what we are waiting for. For me, the time is overdue for these people to be put into prison. Alhaji Shehu Shagari and his NPN did not do one-third of what PDP is doing to Nigeria presently. These are people who should be put on trial for treason.

Jonathan in Yar’Adua’s shoes
That is an illegality. So why did they need to take the budget for his signature in Saudi Arabia? Can Jonathan command the army to go to war against external enemies? If we are invaded today, can Goodluck Jonathan send an army? If the Army Chief goes without an order from the Commander-in-Chief, it is again treasonable. So the simple thing is that PDP has suspended the Nigerian constitution. Why is it so difficult for the Nigerian Senate made up of PDP to take a decision on this matter?

Yes, the senate has taken a step to give a time limit within which a letter must be transmitted, the House of Representatives should follow suit. And when you talk about the option that are on the card, if the man is not willing to go with honour, he should be sent away with disdain; and with the kind of criminal intent which he wants to put the country into. It is the opinion of the senate and if for seventy days (going to three months) a president is not seen for any reason under the sun and technically speaking they are not aware why he is out, it is an impeachable offence. So whichever way they turn the matter, it is clear that they are suspending the Constitution.

The Constitution does not leave any ambiguity as to what should happen in a situation like this. In this country, Kutigi was going on retirement, he handed over to Katsina-Alu the present Chief Justice of the Federation who was second to him. In this country before now, we would have had that done.Why is this one difficult? Why is it impossible? There is no reason under the sun why the ruling party should be taking this country for a ride, and I think we have had enough of this contradiction.

If this country is tired of staying together, let everyman go to his tent. We have no share in the house of PDP. We have no share in the government of PDP because we are being ridiculed -intentionally and I do not think this is what we pray for. This is what Awo, Zik, Balewa, Sar Aduana, Abiola and others fought for.

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Which Way Nigeria?

I think it is time for Nigerians to start searching for the solutions to the multiple problems we have in the country, instead of dwelling on the problems for too long. I think this country is really sick. How can we talk about democracy when the election we hoped that it would have been the real test for 2011 polls is marred with gross irregularities? Imagine, in one of the wards in Amichi, voters couldn't find their names in the voters' register, but could only find names that have MPAMA as surnames. I hope you know that MPAMA simply means idiot in its highest degree. It's really bad. The other day at the meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, Dora Akunyili received the biggest threat on her life because she presented a memo which suggested that her boss should resign for the country to move forward. Which way Nigeria? If you have any solution to any of our problems in this country, please do not hold it back because the condition of Nigeria could only be likened to a bomb waiting to explode. May God help us.

Group threatens to attack oil facilities if Jonathan is not made acting president

The agitation for Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to assume the position of Acting President is set to take another dimension as a group, Network of Freedom Fighters (NFF), threatened to launch attacks on oil installations if Jonathan is not allowed to take over.

The NFF, at the end of its meeting in Yenagoa on Wednesday, also declared that it would not be able to guarantee the lives and property of foreign nationals in the Niger Delta until the political crisis is resolved.
In a communique issued at the end of its meeting and signed by its Coordinator and Secretary, Comrade Nengi James and Kofi Kelvin Moses respectively, a copy of which was made available to Daily Sun, the group warned the Federal Government not to take its threat as empty.

NFF also advised the foreign nationals to close their business operations for now in their own interest. Non-compliance with the directives by NFF would trigger a chain of reactions that the Federal Government would not be able to handle, the communiqué stated.
The group also called on international communities to severe relationship with the Federal Government until Jonathan is inaugurated as acting president, while awaiting the arrival of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has said resumption of hostilities in the Niger Delta will not be in the interest of anyone, warning those contemplating it to desist from such consideration. Though it was not addressed to the NFF directly, the government’s position was not unconnected with the recent call for Nigeria’s ailing president to hand over to his deputy.

There have been calls by former leaders of Nigeria, elder statesmen, professional bodies and Nigerians in general for Yar’Adua to hand over to his deputy according to constitutional provision. NFF is the latest addition to those insisting on transfer of power to Jonathan.
For MEND, however, their concern for now is not so much for Jonathan, a true-born Niger Deltan, to succeed his boss who had been away for months on medical checkup, but to question what they see as the Federal Government’s insincerity in implementing the amnesty programme set in motion by President Yar’Adua himself.
Contrary to MEND’s claim, the Federal Government insists the amnesty programme was very much on course, pointing out that those seeing the negative side of the programme were only those who were not benefiting from the peace in the Niger Delta region.

The chairman of the implementation committee of the amnesty programme and Minister of Defence, Major General Godwin Abbe, told the State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday that the programme was designed in stages and was progressing as planned, pointing out that government was at the stage of the rehabilitation and re-integration of the ex-militants after their documentation.

“It is unfortunate that people are making that kind of statement that amnesty has failed,” Abbe said. To me, that kind of comment is premised on ignorance because the amnesty programme itself is a process. What brought about the amnesty is as a result of what took several years. So, you cannot clear it in a few months.”
The minister also counselled for patience, describing amnesty as a process and not a 100-metre dash, he said government was committed to enthroning peace in the Niger Delta as a prelude to the development of the area and the country, adding that history would judge those who refused to participate and foster peace accordingly.
He said the noticeable delay in the full implementation of the post amnesty programme was informed by the need to be transparent and ensure that proper steps were taken in committing and spending public funds.
“We are at the stage of completing staff work on the road map for rehabilitation and re-integration. We want to make sure that the data that would be required for work is complete and that when the call-up starts, there would be no stop at all. That is on the one hand but remember that other committees have also been established.

“These committees border on infrastructure, environmental sanitation of the area, provision of key facilities like railway line, and are also busy trying to work out all the details and it is the totality of all these that would be put together. When the costing is made, then of course, the process of funding will also have to be followed.”
Abbe explained that the delay in the payment of the monthly stipends to some of the militants was not caused by government as some of them had refused to open bank accounts because they would not want to be identified.
“Until the proper documentation of the militants have been completed, even the gazette action, the government promised, will not take place because we are not ready to include the names of criminals and ex-convicts as repentant militants,” he added.

He decried the threat by MEND, saying it was unpatriotic for any Nigerian to beat his chest and say he would engage in actions that would stall the development of any part of the country, while calling on those behind the threat to reconsider their stand.
“If they choose violence, they do not monopolise violence at all and it is an ill wind that will blow no one any good, including themselves and it is unpatriotic for anyone to continue to threaten the security of this country with violence, fire, hell and brimstone,” he said.
“I have asked before that we should allow peace to take a chance because that is the only opportunity this country has to develop.”

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N’ Assembly gives USA 7-day ultimatum on terror list

HE diplomatic relations between Nigeria and the United States appear threatened over the foiled attempt by a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, even as the Nigerian Senate yesterday gave the United States authorities a seven-day ultimatum to remove Nigerians from their watch list.
In another development, in Abuja, yesterday, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, summoned the American Ambassador, Ms. Robin Sanders, to express the government’s displeasure over the terror list.

Relatedly, the House of Representatives on its part, while condemning the US action, argued that the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Federal Bureau for Investigations, FBI and other security agencies in the United States were culpable in the incident just as the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Mike Aondoakaa, said Nigeria will officially demand that the United States remove it from a terrorism flight watch list.

Senate Spokesman, Senator Ayogu Eze, at a briefing with Senate correspondents on behalf of Senate President David Mark, yesterday, said the Senate would on resumption next Tuesday take a definite position should the American authorities refuse to rescind its decision.

‘Don’t criminalise Nigerians’

Affirming that the alleged aborted terrorist attempt by Abdulmutallab was an exception that should not be generalised, Eze affirmed that there was yet no evidence to blame the security failure on the Nigerian authorities.

Said he: “I am speaking on behalf of the Senate and on behalf of the Senate President to state categorically that we are very unhappy about the development and when we resume we are going to take this matter up seriously if America has not taken Nigeria off that list.

“We also want to advise America that it is in their own best interest to conduct this matter very well in a manner that will not result into diplomatic row between America and Nigeria because the American president had himself clearly admitted that this was a failure of the system and manpower of Americans and I don’t see where Nigeria comes in there.

“Moreover, this is just one instance of a Nigerian who it is clearly established has no link with any fundamentalist group or any interest group within Nigeria, not even with his parents. This was a boy whose disappearance was reported to security agencies, the American authorities, and all the relevant authorities and the American did nothing and for them to turn round to punish Nigerians for the sin of an isolated case like this is completely unacceptable to the Nigerian government and to the Nigerian Senate.

”We have also watched with keen interests several other breaches that have taken place since this boy’s attempt. There was an uninvited guest who went to the White House— he and his wife were found in the White House, that was not a Nigerian.

America should look inward and search their soul, there is something wrong with their system and they should not punish Nigerians who are very law-abiding and good international citizens for the failure and irresponsibility of American operatives. Nigeria will not take that.

US unfair to Nigeria’

“I think that it will be most unfair given the kind of relationship that has existed between America and Nigeria for America to jump to this kind of conclusion without even adequate consultations with the authorities in Nigeria. This is not acceptable to us and we are going to do whatever we can as a nation to prove to America that we will not take this.

“Our citizens who returned from different destinations, especially those who originated their flight from America went through hell in order to come to meet their kith and kin for the Christmas break and the harrowing experience has scared a lot of them who are even afraid to go back and some who are even afraid to originate their trips for genuine transaction in America arising from tales they got from their relations and friends, this must be stopped immediately. This is not how diplomacy is conducted.”

According to him, “We are going to engage all our diplomatic gear to ensure that we either have relationship with America or we don’t. We believe that America is a mature country, it is the model of democracy, all of us looked up to it and it has enjoyed very smooth and cordial diplomatic relationship with Nigeria. Nigeria has never been found wanting in her dealings with America.

“So, for them to embarrass this country with this kind of classification for no justification is completely unacceptable. It is not America alone that has citizens to whom the government is responsible, we also have citizens and we are responsible for them, we will not allow Nigerians to be molested wherever they go.

I think that this message should be put out clearly and when we resume, if the situation is still there, it is going to be one of the major issues that we are going to tackle and the Senate President has told me to state categorically that he is unhappy about this and being the chairman of the National Assembly, it means also on behalf of the National Assembly.”

Reps flays US’ action

Relatedly, spokesman for the House of Representatives, Mr. Eseme Eyiboh, described as unwarranted and unfair, the inclusion of Nigeria on the list of countries on the United States’ terrorism hyper_alert countries.

“The earlier they de_list Nigeria on that list or rescind from the decision to put us on alert, the better for our diplomatic relations,” he warned.

Eyiboh, however, said until the house resumed plenary next Tuesday, he would not issue an official statement on the issue.

The lawmaker who spoke to newsmen, yesterday, hours after a briefing by the Senate, added that CIA,FBI and other security agencies in the United States may also have been guilty of the terrorism act.

According to him, “CIA, FBI, security agencies in the United States are also culpable in the terrorism that they are talking about. It is possible that they have accomplices with the guys that trained that boy in Yemen .

“If not, why didn’t they condemn Yemen? Why have they spared Yemen and are now condemning Nigeria?” He added that the matter was not strictly within the purview of the National Assembly to decide whether to cut diplomatic ties with the United States but an Executive function.

Aondoakaa attacks decision

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Mr. Mike Aondoakaa, however, declared that the US “will rescind that decision because Nigeria is not a terrorist country and a single incident that involves a Nigerian cannot criminalise all Nigerians,” while the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, insisted that there was “no security issue” in the country.

He cited a Briton, Richard Reid, the so_called “shoe bomber” convicted of trying to blow up a Paris_Miami flight in 2001.

According to the police boss, “If the American authorities could not add Britain … to the list of countries of interest, then there is no reason to include Nigeria. We may be deeply religious, but certainly we are no suicide bombers or terrorists.”

The Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, had branded the move as discriminatory and unfair, saying the suspect, “was not influenced in Nigeria. He was not recruited or trained in Nigeria. He was not supported whatsoever in Nigeria.”

But, the Action Congress, AC, argued that rather than sanctions, Nigeria needed the understanding and support of its international partners to stamp out religious extremism in the country.

According to the party, “a threat to peace anywhere is a threat to peace everywhere. Therefore, Nigeria’s international partners will also be assisting themselves by assisting Nigeria,” it said.

FG summons US envoy

Meanwhile, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that Nigeria does not deserve to be grouped among terrorist nations, saying it was unacceptable, even as it launched a process with the American Government towards de-listing the nation from that group.

The Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, at a briefing in Abuja said top Nigerian officials held critical discussions with the American Ambassador Robin Sanders and other top envoys on how to achieve that goal.

Notwithstanding Nigeria’s position, Maduekwe added that the government has ordered 30 full body scanners for the nation’s airport, a demonstration of the government’s non-compromising stance on terrorism..

The statement

According to him: “Listing Nigeria on second tire of countries that are indicated on the ladder of terrorism and security measures from the USA is an unacceptable New Year gift to a friendly country like Nigeria on the year of its golden jubilee celebration.

“We are not on the world terrorist list, nor have ever supported or connived with countries known for terrorist act. We have been on the list with which US has maintained excellent relationship. For the fact that these countries surround us does not place us in the terrorist list. It is unacceptable to Nigerians.

“I sensed some double standards here. What the young boy attempted to do is not different from what the suicide bomber-countries are doing and yet they are not on that list”.

The minister, however, noted that during the meeting with the US Ambassador to Nigeria, he pleaded that Nigeria should be off the list, adding that Nigeria is not against American government protecting its citizens from being harmed.

“We want the American government to look into the matter again. We are not against them for trying to protect its citizens and we will give them all the support they needed to condemn global terrorism.

“We pledged as government under the leadership of Vice_President in the absence of Mr. President to cooperate with US in all their investigations and we are keeping to that. We have stopped at nothing but to show that we are united in combating terrorism”, added Maduekwe.

He pointed out that even the state from which the young man came from is doing a soul searching on why he embarked on such mission, “it is embarrassing and unprofitable to Nigeria as a nation and undermines seriously our re-branding process.”
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