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Nigeria: Outsourcing the Presidency, One Infirmity at a Time

Nearly 20 years ago, while stumping for his party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, out-going president, Olusegun Obasanjo, decided to confront head-on morbid rumours about the health of his hand-picked successor. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, then governor of Katsina State and the president’s man for the job, was said to be stricken in a hospital in Germany. […] The post Nigeria: Outsourcing the…

Nigeria: Outsourcing the Presidency, One Infirmity at a Time

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