Despite the care given to him in large university hospitals manned by specialists reference German and Arabic medicine, Umaru Yar’Adua was left hopelessly bedridden, and his condition went from bad to worse, to the dismay of his political family, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the biological, in Northern Nigeria. So it went officially the successor of General Olusegun Obasanjo at the head of the Nigerian federation..

Officially, we say, because they are, again, numerous analysts Landernau policy which in their conscience, thought that since his return in secret last February after a stay in Germany medical, hospitalization of two months in Saudi Arabia and the code of silence that had followed on his health situation, the successor of General Olusegun was virtually dead.

Having suffered from kidney problems and heart for years, Yar’Adua, one remembers, had visited Nov. 23, 2009 in Saudi Arabia to treat pericarditis, which is nothing, according to experts, an inflammation the membrane surrounding the heart. Returned almost clandestinely aboard a plane medicalized, the fate of the President, in the eyes of the vast majority of his countrymen, seemed permanently sealed.

Born August 16, 1951 in Katsina, a northern city of Nigeria, Umaru Yar’Adua was born into a family lived with the virus of politics: First, his father was a minister in the first government formed after the independence in 1960, after which his brother was the No. 2 military government led by Olusegun Obasanjo from 1976 to 1979.

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