Posted on 02/09/2010 8:13:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ABUJA, Nigeria Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.
But the move is not contemplated in the constitution, legal experts say, and could cause more friction between the Christian south, which gains the presidency at least temporarily, and Muslim north, which finds itself out of the seat of power.
Jonathan told the nation in a televised address Tuesday night that he had assumed power as acting president and commander in chief of the country of 150 million people. He urged all Nigerians to continue to pray for elected President Umaru Yar'Adua, who left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Nov. 23. Yar'Adua's physician has said the 58-year-old, who long has suffered from kidney ailments, is being treated for acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart.
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Good Luck, VeeP Goodluck!
Here’s hoping Goodluck ain’t bad luck.
.."wonder if their Speaker,Youbetchurass Williams has any aspirations?
Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Holy crap ! That’s Wesley Snipes !
haha
I just hope the Nigerian Muslims don’t take this as another occasion to slaughter the Christians.
He looks like he is in the Lagoswood remake of “Sugar Hill” in that photo.
I think it was 128 million 3 years ago. Now 150?
What a place ...good luck, anybody even attempting to make order out of the rabble that is Nigeria will need all they can get. Nothing short of divine intervention could render that place sane or habitable.
Silly, Muslims don’t need a specific reason to slaughter Christians!
Thats Wesley Snipes !
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That’s what I thought too.. a dead ringer.
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