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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) -
Doctors treating Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua in Sa
udi Arabia
say their patient will soon be well and could be discharged next week, according
to local Nigerian Television
station, AIT.
The AIT report, quoting Saudi Doctors at the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, sai
d the president might be well
enough by next week to return home to his job of governance.
Yar'Adua went to Saudi Arabia 23 November, suffering from a heart ailment (acute
pericarditis).
However, a popular Nigerian clergyman, Tunde Bakare, has added his voice to the
growing number of prominent Nigerians
who have asked Yar'Adua to resign.
"Quit now, Bakare tells Yarâ?Adua", was the headline story of the Sun newspaper
Monday, which quoted Paster Bakare
of the Latter Rain Assembly, based in Lagos, as charging the president to resign
from office immediately.
Bakare who gave the charge Sunday while speaking at the churchâ?s service on th
e theme â?Beginning of the End,â? said
the health challenge of the president warranted that he vacates office immediate
ly as a patriotic duty to the nation.
â?If you donâ?t leave the office, the office is about to leave you. If the tru
th must be told, the health challenge of our president in
spite of all propaganda to the contrary warrants his immediate resignation as a
patriotic duty to our nation," he said.
However, in what appears to be the first reaction of President Yarâ?Aduaâ?s fa
mily to the current controversy surrounding his health,
the presidentâ?s younger sister, Hajiya Binta Kuraye, dismissed calls on her br
other to resign, insisting that Yar'Adua would continue to be
president by the will of Allah.
â?Those calling for the resignation of the president on his ill-health should h
ave the fear of God for the sustenance of democracy of the
country,â? she said, adding that her family and their well wishers were not hap
py to hear the rumoured death of the president.
Last week, the Federal Executive Council rejected calls for the resignation of t
he president.
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