The ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, who left for Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009 for treatment, is rumored to have discreetly returned to the country in the early hours of Wednesday without any clear indication of his state of health as he was swiftly whisked away from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja in an ambulance.
He left Nigeria without formally transmitting a health vacation letter to enable the National Assembly to pass the necessary resolution to make Vice President Goodluck Jonathan acting president as required by the constitution.
That action caused a vacuum in the presidency for nearly three months before the legislature finally passed a resolution two weeks ago to make Jonathan act as president.
Yar’Adua’s return was without fanfare even as the security was beefed and the tarmac shielded before the president was lifted into the ambulance from the second presidential jet which landed 15 minutes after the first.
The landing of the second jet so many minutes after the first and the hovering of ambulances were seen as décoy to deceive journalists who had gathered at the airport to nose around.
Family sources told APA in Abuja on Wednesday that the President had recuperated and was fit to resume work but could not tell why no information was given concerning his discharge from the hospital.
Source African Press Agency
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