Senators urge Yar'Adua handover

» By chopstick | the 02-09-2010 at 14:06 | 35 views (19 unique) | 0 comments | Report post!

Both houses of Nigeria's National Assembly have passed a motion for sick President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand power to his deputy until he recovers. The BBC's Ahmed Idris in Abuja says the move among the political elite to back the vice-president is unprecedented. Mr Yar'Adua has been in hospital in Saudi Arabia since last November.

His allies have been loath to see Vice-President

Goodluck Jonathan sworn in as acting president because of Nigeria's delicate regional balance of power. Mr Yar'Adua is a northerner while Mr Jonathan is from the south. Since democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, power has alternated between north and south and some northern power-brokers do not want to see their "turn" cut short.

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