Nuhu Ribadu, his wife and children were reportedly removed from the gathering by security agents of President Umaru Yar’ Adua so that Nuhu Ribadu will not have the honour he had worked for by attending the course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru.

The sum total of all that have been happening to Ribadu through the Yar’ Adua administration shows clearly that:

1. Yar’ Adua’s government has the tendencies of fascism.

2. Yar’ Adua’s government pays lip-service to democracy and its tenets.

3. Yar’ Adua’s profession for the rule of law is smoke-screen and hypocrisy of the worst order.

Today, at the time the illegality was being committed in Kuru by agents of Yar’ Adua’s administration, Nuhu Ribadu’s matters are in a court of law.

I am a plaintiff in one regarding his unconstitutional removal. His demotion and infraction of his fundamental right including the threats against him by the government constitutes also a court action at the Federal High Court, Abuja. It is Ribadu that resorted to rule of law, Yar’ Adua’s government has resorted to infamous barbarism of the worst order. And I condemn it.

The implication of what is happening with regards to Nuhu Ribadu’s tribulation, victimization and oppression by Yar’ Adua administration is simply that this government has no simple stomach to fight corruption further.

Secondly, when a matter is in court whether an order is made or not, a president and his administration should respect the Judiciary by not complicating matters for the Judiciary by what has been done today at Kuru.

Thirdly, nobody really knows what is wrong with this President called Yar’ Adua but there are conditions in Section 144 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 that if your health will not enable you to run the office effectively, you can quit as Mr. President. But, the question is: What really is wrong with Mr. President? We are entitled to know because things are being done in a barbaric manner, a bizarre manner and in an unconstitutional manner.

Are we being governed by proxy? If a man is not in charge he should not pretend to the world that he is in charge. All these things are absurd and I am worried. Even Barak Obama who will soon be sworn in as President of the United States of America on 20th January, 2009 has taken more effective actions than Yar’ Adua who has been sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since the 29th May, 2007.

We cannot continue to suffer in silence.