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http://americanchronicle.com/articles/view/141551
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yaradua isseverely brain damaged and suffering from a severe stroke, it has beenauthoritatively confirmed.
Previously, it had been reported that he was dead. This was largely dueto the fact that ever since he arrived at the King Faisal Hospital inJeddah, he had been in an unusual coma in which he lay on bed theentire day with his eyes closed which led to some staff thinking thePresident was actually dead. However, it has been confirmed that thefirst family has bribed staff of the Hospital not to give informationto the media about the true state of the President´s health.
The President of Nigeria has been bedridden since November 23 2009 andhas not spoken a word since then. He spends his entire day on bed,staring blankly on the ceiling. Even though his wife, Turai has been byhis side, he is said to hardly recognize her and sometimes just staresat her blankly as if she is ghost.
I don´t think your president can ever rule that country again. He is asgood as dead,´ said a nurse at the Hospital who is close to HodderwayBooks.
He has not said a word since he came in here. For the first two weeks,he just lay still in bed and did not wake up for days. We were so surethat he was dead and that the doctors were hiding something from us. Heis not dead but he is seriously brain damaged. I don´t think he´ll makeit,´ she said.
Also, the President is said to be suffering from much more than oneailment. ´He may have Lung cancer as well,´ our source said. ´For somereason the doctor has been secretive about the health of thePresident.´ The president is known to be a chain smoker.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the phone call in which thePresident supposedly called the BBC to confirm that he will return tothe country when his heath got better was a prank call. According to ananonymous source in the Information technology department of thePresidency office, the first lady and close friends of the presidencyused voice-morphing software in which one of the president´s childhoodfriends spoke to the BBC in the guise of the president. The Nigerianruler has not said a word in the last three months. Not even to Turai.He is in such a terrible condition that the first lady has been makingfrantic efforts to ensure that nobody sees him in the state he is in.
Meanwhile, last week the Nigerian Parliament sent a delegation of fivemembers of Parliament to see the ailing leader. However, the five werereportedly denied seeing the President as the Hospital staff was understrict instructions from the First lady not to allow anyone see thePresident in his deplorable state,
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was declared acting President last week by the Oil-producing nation.
That's unfortunate. I really don't follow African Politics as much as I probably should.