Nigeria’s Sick Man Democracy
There are plenty of world leaders in less-than-perfect health. But nowhere are the stakes higher than in Nigeria, where President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose kidney ailment is rumored to be terminal, embodies the country’s delicate political balance.
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How sick is Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua? In May, he admitted during a live television broadcast that he suffers from a kidney ailment, but sought to quell rumors that he was terminally ill by insisting that fears for his health are greatly exaggerated and politically motivated. There are plenty of world leaders in less-than-perfect health. But the stakes are especially high in Nigeria, where Yar’Adua embodies the country’s delicate political balance.