Senate to decide Yar’Adua’s fate tomorrow — Ekweremadu

The Senate is to determine the fate of President Umaru Yar’Adua who is undergoing medical treatment in Saudi Arabia for over 50 days now.
Deputy Senate President, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, who disclosed this while answering questions from journalists in Minna, Niger State yesterday said the Senate had decided to deliberate on the issue because it was of national importance.
The Deputy Senate President who was in Minna to pay a condolence visit to former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, over the death of his wife Maryam told journalists that Nigerians should have patience until tomorrow for the outcome of deliberation of the Senate over the controversial issue.
“By Tuesday, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will rise to the matter. The Senate will rise to the occasion,” the Deputy Senate President declared when further pressed by journalists on what the outcome of the deliberation is likely to offer on the medication of the ailing president.
Ekweremadu who admitted that the circumstances surrounding the health of the president had caused political crisis and comments by notable Nigerians did not disclose the actual action to be taken by the upper house in their deliberation but simply said: “You people and Nigerians should just wait patiently and watch out for what is going to be the outcome of the Tuesday’s deliberation.”
Calls for caution on terror list
On the failed December 25 attempt by a Farouk Umar Mutallab to bomb a US-bound aircraft, the Deputy Senate President called for caution in the way the matter is being handled in order not to degenerate into political logjam between the United States of America and Nigeria.
He called on US and other foreign countries not to see all Nigerians as terrorists because of the recent development, adding that there are other good attributes that can be associated with Nigerians and Nigeria as a nation.
According to him, we need to engage all diplomatic means to resolve the matter and avoid any further escalation on the matter in order to avoid a total breakdown of diplomatic relation between the two friendly countries.
On Maryam Babangida
On the former first lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, Ekweremadu described her a woman of all parts  who used her position to better and uplift the lives of all Nigerians especially the womenfolk through her project, Better Life for Rural Women.
He called on Nigerians, especially the women, not to allow the good work started by the former first lady to die by continuing the good work where she stopped.
Mrs  Abacha  consoles IBB
Also at the Uphill residence of the Babangidas, the wife of the late General Sani Abacha, Hajiya Mariam Abacha, accompanied by her son, Mohammed and some women paid a condolence visit on the former military President.
Hajiya Abacha who spent over two hours along with her entourage on the condolence visit, however, refused to entertain questions from journalists on the life of the former first lady but instead prayed God to give the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.