{"id":3754,"date":"2010-02-05T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:41:49","slug":"nigerian-information-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/nigerian-information-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Information Minister Asks to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nigeria_Yaradua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3755\" title=\"Nigerian Information Minister Asks to Resign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nigeria_Yaradua-219x219.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian Information Minister Asks to Resign\" width=\"219\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nigeria_Yaradua-219x219.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nigeria_Yaradua.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili has reportedly said that the absence of ailing President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua was hurting the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News agencies have obtained a copy of a memo that Akunyili circulated to other cabinet members at a meeting Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The memo urged the cabinet to consider asking the president to hand over power until he can return from his medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kabiru Mato, director of the political science department at the University of Abuja said he\u2019s not surprised by  minister Akunyili\u2019s action because, according to him it\u2019s all part of politicians trying to position themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is true that the minister has served the council with a contrary memo, I would think that perhaps firstly the minister is not part of that unanimous council resolution of seven days earlier, or the minister was later convinced by either her inner circle or associates to perhaps disassociate herself with an earlier resolution of council,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mato said some political forces in Nigeria were misconstruing President Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s absence from the country because they desire to walk in the President\u2019s shoes so that they may gain access to the country\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Information&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,118],"tags":[4819,4815,4818],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-kabiru-mato","tag-minister-dora-akunyili","tag-professor-kabiru-mato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}