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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa’s most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the oil sector.
Jonathan told the nation in a televised address Tuesday night that he had assumed power as acting president and commander in chief. He urged all Nigerians to continue to pray for elected President Umaru Yar’Adua, who left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Nov. 23 without making any provisions for running the country.
