Yar'Adua's Death: How Goodluck Jonathan became Nigeria's President in 2010

Goodluck Jonathan, as the Vice President of Nigeria, was supposed to act as President and discharge the duties of the office as Acting President whenever his boss, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, was not around in reference to Section 145 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution.
Unfortunately, the President who had been battling with diverse life-threatening diseases "failed" to transmit a letter to the National Assembly under the afore-quoted section of the constitution which states that:
“Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on a vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President.”
Jonathan’s lawyers and advisers argued that until the President transmits a letter, he had no power to act as President. Thus, according to them, any actions he carried out as Vice President that was required by the President, such as the signing of the budget and swearing-in of the Chief Justice of the Federation, would amount to usurpation of power which is impeachable under Section 143 (11) of the constitution.
To be fair to President Yar’Adua, he did write a letter to be transmitted to the National Assembly through the Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa. Unfortunately, the latter who was part of a kitchen cabinet or a faceless cabal failed to transmit the letter to the National Assembly. They felt the power of the President is too immense to relinquish just like that.
Besides, to hand over power to a “minority” (in this case, Goodluck Jonathan) was a risk too high for them to take.
Earlier in the tenure, Jonathan had been sidelined from the scheme of things as Vice President but the President’s advisers kept stressing on “One Presidency”.
However, Yar’Adua’s ailment served as a distraction to him and the cabal “had their way”. #HistoryVille #UmaruMusaYarAdua #GoodluckJonathan
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:17 Yar’Adua’s Illness
03:54 Jonathan's Confusion
05:00 Two Nigerian Chief Justices in One Day
05:57 Yar’Adua’s Cabinet Divided
06:46 The Doctrine of Necessity
08:22 Acting President Goodluck Jonathan
09:07 When the Cat's Asleep...
11:46 Yar’Adua’s Death
12:54 Next Video

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God bless yar' dua, a peaceful fulani man, Jonathan was a jewel.

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President Goodluck Jonathan remains the best president ever in the history of Nigeria.

[@cynthiananje2421]

RIP, Yaradua. Good Fulani’ man with clean soul

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Simply the best Nigeria history narrator

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Thanks.

[@dbest19330]

Thanks for the video. I can't help but criticize Nigerian leaders for taking so long to make Goodluck acting president, why is he a vice president? Nigerian leaders always abuse the constitution and this issue of bad leadership has no end in sight.

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Him and yaradua The best president among the lunatic and the wicked one's.

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Brilliant job, recording in chronicles of Nigeria for posterity. Brilliant objective discuss🧐😀

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Dora keep resting ma'am ❣️

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This is very enlightening. Thank you for taking time to research and publish this.

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[@babangidanzegwu1476]

The fact that our president who's spent more than half his tenure abroad was one of the first to cast the stone back then. I vividly remember him clamoring for action to be taken against our "incapacitated president" at the time. The irony!

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The president Oumar musa yaradua is the best president in the nigerian history

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Nice one man.
Jonathan was actually a betrayal.

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Wow what a chess game, your leaders definitely know how to play chess of Nigeria 🇳🇬. It's a pity they don't use the same energy when dealing with the West

[@samijay]

These senators hardly even know any law

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[@Ayogbadebo]

Who are these cabals? From day one we have been talking about cabal cabal in every regime in nigeria

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Cabals are the northern emirates working for British government

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Jonathan was never a fully elected president thou

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Who was elected predicted in 2011? 😕

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please point out the sentiment, for learning purposes.

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Dora keep resting ma'am ❣️