We expected that a probe panel should be sitting and interrogating all persons involved in the events surrounding the late President’s sickness culminating in the eventual declaration of his death on May 5, 2010. By all persons, we mean including Mrs Turai Yar’Adua. Yet, our hearts go to the entire Yar’Adua family.
In a serious country, Mrs Yar’Adua especially, should be facing treason trial for all her intransigencies since November 2009 against the Nigerian people and their country. Lest we forget, the Nigerian people and the entire world would want to know the expenses their nation had incurred over Yar’Adua’s sickness culminating in his death recently. The cheap way to dismiss a call such as this is to ask that the dead be allowed to rest. This is a simplistic and naive way of treating a national issue of monumental proportion which is of interest to posterity, constitutional experts, students of the Nigerian Constitution worldwide, all those clamouring for constitution review, historians, conscientious statisticians, economists and researchers.