Why also, did your own Vice-President then move to have you declared unable to discharge the powers and duties of your office and your newly appointed Secretary of Defence vote in favour? (See here.) As I outlined in an
address to the nation, at the time, I believed, and still believe, that President Ebowed was not within his right mind during this controversy. I thus believed it necessary to
temporarily relieve him of his duties, so as to diffuse the entire situation. I have since withdrawn my declaration.