According to the BBC article "Ill Nigeria President Yar'Adua Must Quit" from Wednesday, Febuary 3rd, 2010, powerful media owners have stated that that the ailing president must hand over power or resign within 7 days from Wednesday. If he does not, they state that the National assembly should start Impeachment procedures, because President Yar'Adua had been out of the country for more than 70 days. This statement has come after two different groups saying that the president doesn't not have to resign, those two groups being the Cabinet and the Supreme court.
This article shows an interesting part of our Co comparative government curriculum, the idea of political institutions. Here, we have a conflict between two of the main political institutions and one linkage institution: the Courts, The Executive Cabinet and the Media. All of these institutions are basically having a battle of wills over what the National Assembly should do about President Yar'Adua. The Courts and the Executive Cabinets say that the President is not incapacitated, but the Newspaper owners are still seeking his stepping down, whether voluntary or not. In other Countries, this may not be a big deal, but here, this crisis may be the starting point of a military coup, a political take over, or even full civil war.
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