{"id":218626,"date":"2010-01-22T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-2018696935385571955"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:04:00","slug":"nigeria-court-orders-cabinet-to-pass-resolution-on-presidents-ability-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218626","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria court orders cabinet to pass resolution on president&#8217;s ability to govern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Nigeria&#8217;s cabinet must pass a resolution within 14 days on whether ailing President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua is capable of running the country, according to an order issued on Friday by Judge Dan Abutu of Federal High Court in Abuja. Yar&#8217;Adua has been absent from the country for two months receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Last week, a judge for Nigeria&#8217;s Federal High Court ordered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to assume executive powers due to the prolonged absence of President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua. Nigeria&#8217;s cabinet will hear testimony from five doctors to make its decision. If the cabinet finds Yar&#8217;Adua to be unfit, Jonathan will take over, in accordance with Nigeria&#8217;s Constitution.<br \/>\nIn 2008, the Nigerian Supreme Court upheld the results of disputed 2007 election that brought Yar&#8217;Adua to power, despite opposition groups&#8217; allegations of fraud. Yar&#8217;Adua had promised to step down if the court invalidated the election. A tribunal formed before the 2007 election to deal with allegations of fraud ruled that the opposition groups lacked enough evidence of fraud to have the results overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Nigeria&#8217;s cabinet must pass a resolution within 14 days on whether ailing President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua is capable of running the country, according to an order issued on Friday by Judge Dan Abutu of Federal High Court in Abuja. Yar&#8217;Adua has been absent from the country for two months receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}