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Nigeria: Vice president now acting president (Vice President Goodluck Jonathan)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/9/10 | Bashit Adigun and Jon Gambrell - ap

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; goodluck; jonathan; nigeria

1 posted on 02/09/2010 8:13:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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Good Luck, VeeP Goodluck!


2 posted on 02/09/2010 8:13:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Here’s hoping Goodluck ain’t bad luck.


3 posted on 02/09/2010 8:14:32 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: NormsRevenge

.."wonder if their Speaker,Youbetchurass Williams has any aspirations?

4 posted on 02/09/2010 8:16:53 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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FRom 2009

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


5 posted on 02/09/2010 8:21:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge; Impy; Perdogg; Clemenza; GOPsterinMA

Holy crap ! That’s Wesley Snipes !


6 posted on 02/09/2010 8:25:53 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

haha


7 posted on 02/09/2010 8:37:17 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I just hope the Nigerian Muslims don’t take this as another occasion to slaughter the Christians.


8 posted on 02/09/2010 8:44:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He looks like he is in the Lagoswood remake of “Sugar Hill” in that photo.


9 posted on 02/10/2010 6:23:19 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


10 posted on 02/10/2010 7:33:09 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Cicero

Silly, Muslims don’t need a specific reason to slaughter Christians!


11 posted on 02/10/2010 7:35:13 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That’s Wesley Snipes !

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That’s what I thought too.. a dead ringer.


12 posted on 02/10/2010 8:54:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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