Conspiracy to kill YarAdua: The Politics of Ill-Health

The last is yet to be heard of President Maru YarAduas ill-health. Even before he got elected, the story was broken, gleefully, you might say, by some of his detractors and the press that the man had passed on.
General Olusegun Obasanjo, the man who appeared more worried about YarAdua succeeding him than Yaradua wanting to be President, had to make a public phone call to calm the public.

Then, recently, at this first (?) television interview, Yaradua “ did not even need to confirm that he had been sick. He coughed (?) away throughout most of the interactive session. He had argued, indeed, very correctly, that he was human “ and frail, as any other one, including the ones who seemed to have been excited that he was ill.
The concern of the nation, however, goes beyond