Yar'Adua: AC hails Nigerian army (http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8954:yaradua-ac-hails-nigerian-army-&catid=85:national&Itemid=340)
The Action Congress (AC) said the Nigerian army and indeed the entire military acted professionally and responsibly all through the leadership crisis caused by President Umaru Yar'Adua's failure to legally transfer power to his deputy when he left the country for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. In a statement issued in Ibadan on Tuesday by its national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party dissociated itself from the castigation of the Nigerian army hierarchy by the Lagos chapter of the party, saying that view did not represent the opinion of the party, either in Lagos or at the national level. It said at the height of the crisis, the military was being openly prodded by some elements within the polity to take power and give politicians the 'Rawlings treatment'. "But the military shunned such unpatriotic calls and stuck to the ethos of its profession, while insisting on subjugating itself to civilian control. Going by Nigeria's history of coups and counter-coups, the behaviour of our military while the leadership vacuum lasted is a source of pride."
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