{
  "id": 13778642,
  "title": "Nigeria: Outsourcing the Presidency, One Infirmity at a Time",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/nigeria-outsourcing-the-presidency-one-infirmity-at-a-time",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-11T19:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/916191-nigeria-outsourcing-the-presidency-one-infirmity-at-a-time.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}