Yar’Adua backed Mugabe’s right, however, to attend the European-African Union summit in Lisbon, Portugal in December.
 Yar’Adua, attending a meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany said: “I want to emphasise that what is happening in Zimbabwe is not in conformity with the rule of law. I do not subscribe to this.” He did not, however, eleborate as to how the rule of law was being breached.