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Obasanjo Return To Power

July 3, 2007

Despite being bruised  by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last elections, opposition elements still could not wait for 29 May to come. It was the terminal date of the eight-year presidency of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the extension of which was thwarted by a valiant struggle by the opposition.


But last Tuesday, whatever joy the opposition must have felt evaporated with Obasanjo’s return to Nigeria from a vacation in Jamaica. On arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Obasanjo attracted journalists who wanted his views on national issues. These included the recent national strike and moves by President Umar Yar’Adua to include members of the opposition in the PDP-led federal government.
 
It was a new Obasanjo that stood before the reporters. There was no sign of the brusqueness that once characterised his response to questions. The former president smiled effusively and cleverly danced around reporters’ questions, requesting that he be left out of discussions on national issues, as he was removed from sources of news while on vacation.
 
A new president, he added, is now in charge. “The President is the leader of the party. Everything depends on him. Do not spoil my relaxation mood with issues bordering on Nigeria. I went to rest. I went for relaxation. I have just come back; don’t spoil what I have brought back,” Obasanjo said.
By the next day, however, it became clear that Obasanjo had done more than lazing around in the Jamaican sun. The former president, as events later showed, was in touch with events in Nigeria and the PDP, and had returned to assume a huge role he had cleverly designed for himself before leaving office.
 
This was revealed when he was confirmed as the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the PDP at Abuja’s Transcorp Hilton last Wednesday. The confirmation, as with many things involving Obasanjo, was not without drama. Though the popular expectation was that he would assume the position after the national convention of the party in November, in line last year’s amendment of the PDP constitution, the former president was in no mood to wait. The amended Section 12 (77) of the PDP constitution reads: “Without prejudice to the provisions of this constitution, the party will ensure that an elected chairman is: (1) Either a former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria produced by the party or in the absence of such; (2) A former national chairman of the party who has distinguished himself in the service of the party; (3) A person of proven integrity who has contributed immensely to the growth of the party.”

Of course, the only former president of Nigeria produced by the PDP is Obasanjo. That effectively shut out other aspirants.
But contrary to expectation, a meeting of the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) last Monday, endorsed the continuation in office of Chief Tony Anenih. The meeting was attended by President Yar’Adua, Vice President Jonathan Goodluck, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, National Chairman; Dr. Alex Ekwueme, a former BOT Chairman; and Barnabas Gemade, former National Chairman, among other bigwigs.
 
The meeting, held at the PDP Headquarters in Abuja, also resulted in the reconstitution of the BOT. New members like Senate President, David Mark; his predecessor, Ken Nnamani; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, were admitted. So were Babangida Nguroje, Deputy Speaker, and House Leader, Tunde Akogun.
 
All through the meeting, Ali was silent on whether Obasanjo was coming to take over as BOT Chairman. It was the same with the party’s National Secretary, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, who beyond re-affirming that Chief Anenih remained as the BOT Chairman, refused to entertain other questions on the matter.
 
This reinforced the expectation that Anenih, popularly known as Mr. ‘Fix It’, would remain in office till November. This also led most newspapers to report that Anenih would keep his position till November. But somewhat like Anenih, the media did not reckon with the schemes Obasanjo had perfected on his Jamaican trip.
 This magazine gathered that the former president actually cut short his trip because of his intention to assume the chairmanship of the BOT. To realise his ambition, as last Wednesday’s events revealed, Obasanjo–in tandem with some party members– designed a scheme to unhinge Anenih.

Those involved in the scheme included Dr. Ali, Chief Bode George, National Vice Chairman (South West); and former National Secretary, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor.
Ironically, it was a  BOT meeting that Anenih had scheduled for later that day which was hijacked by Obasanjo and his supporters. TheNEWS  gathered that Anenih had, last Monday, circulated a notice of the BOT meeting fixed for Wednesday evening, the usual time the meeting held since the board was inaugurated. But unknown to him, Ali, apparently acting at the behest of Obasanjo, had directed on Tuesday night that the meeting be held at noon on Wednesday. Anenih’s aides were, therefore, shocked when they noticed some BOT members streaming into Abuja’s Transcorp Hilton on Wednesday afternoon. The aides moved to inform the BOT members that the meeting was for 8p.m., adding that no meeting of the board had ever taken place in the afternoon.
 
But Chief Bode George asked those present to take their seats and wait for further information from the National Chairman. Those waiting  were subsequently informed that the meeting would indeed hold, as President Yar’Adua and Obasanjo were already at the venue.
Before the meeting started, Professor Jerry Gana, former Information Minister and until then the BOT Secretary, walked in, but left when he learnt that Anenih had shifted the meeting to 8p.m.

Ali arrived the venue at 1p.m. and was followed by Obasanjo and later, Yar’Adua and his deputy. The closed-door meeting lasted about two hours, after which Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, former Bauchi State governor, announced that Obasanjo had been unanimously endorsed as the new BOT Chairman. Former Nasarawa State governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, was also picked as Secretary to replace Gana. The announcement by Mu’azu that the former president was unanimously adopted as BOT Chairman was later confirmed by Chief Ogbulafor.

National Secretary of PDP, Ojo Maduekwe, explained the changes wrought in the BOT. “Pursuant to the decisions of both the national caucus and the National Executive Committee (NEC), the BOT met today to effect the change contemplated by the new amendment. It was merely a constitutional issue that has to align the position of the BOT chairman with the amendment to the PDP constitution. Only in the absence of a former president, produced by the party, could the BOT chairman position be held by a person who had not previously been a president. Based on the aforementioned, the PDP BOT meeting, which was well-attended, resolved to elect and did elect former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the new BOT chairman and former Governor of Nasarawa State, Adamu Abdullahi, as its new secretary. Both distinguished officials have since resumed duty,” he told reporters.
But even as Obasanjo was rejoicing over his adoption as the BOT Chairman, some PDP members are in a fit of rage.

The aggrieved members contend that the meeting at which Obasanjo was adopted was not properly convened. The meeting, said members who spoke to this magazine, was in contravention of the PDP constitution. They alleged that as stipulated in the constitution, the BOT meeting can only be summoned by the chairman who, until last Wednesday, was Anenih or by his Secretary, Gana. Both men were absent from the meeting. Another source of anger is the sparseness of the attendance. On account of this, allege angry members, a quorum was not formed, as less than 30 members were present. They contend that this violated Section 12 of the PDP Constitution, which states that the quorum for the board’s meeting shall be two-thirds of its members drawn at least from two-thirds of the states of the federation. The board, this magazine gathered, currently has 79 members.

Maduekwe, however, insisted that “quorum does not matter in this matter” since the party’s NEC had already approved of the meeting.
The lack of quorum, this magazine gathered, resulted from the scheme to shut out from the meeting those that might oppose the installation of Obasanjo. Sources told this magazine that Obasanjo had earlier called Yar’Adua to remind him of the meeting scheduled for that afternoon. But the President was said to have told Obasanjo that the meeting was fixed for 8 p.m. and that it should hold at the scheduled time.
This was said to have infuriated the former president, who asked if Yar’Adua had joined his opponents. According to sources, this was why only 25 members, believed to be Obasanjo supporters, attended the meeting.

The mood in Anenih’s home was a sober one when this magazine visited last Wednesday night. Security men turned back every visitor, with a firm response that Anenih was not expecting any visitor. “Oga needs quiet time. He is not expecting any visitor,” an aide told this magazine.

Anenih’s ouster, sources said, still rankles within his camp. Already, said sources, some leaders of the party are urging him to go to court, an option that may earn him suspension from the party.
It was, however, gathered that Anenih held a meeting with his supporters last Thursday to fashion an appropriate response. Anenih’s deposition effectively places Obasanjo’s hand on the PDP power switch.
 
For one, the new BOT executives are exclusively loyalists of the former president. Former governors Mu’azu and Abdullahi were leading players in the failed campaign to extend Obasanjo’s tenure. With such men, the former president is unlikely to face opposition on the board. With the amendment of the party’s constitution, Obasanjo will have far more powers than previous BOT chairmen like Chief Solomon Lar, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and Anenih. The amendment, executed on 16 December last year, also confirmed him as the party’s life leader and places his office above other party organs like the National Caucus, National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee.

As president, Obasanjo was the undoubted leader of the party despite the provisions of  Article 13 of the PDP constitution. This describes the National Chairman as “the Chief Executive of the party”, who presides at meetings of all critical national organs such as the National Working Committee, the National Executive Committee and National Caucus. Article 13 (1b) further mandates him to “provide firm and effective leadership and direct the activities of the party...”
 
The BOT, on the other hand, is the conscience of the party and is expected to be composed of matured statesmen. As stipulated in the party’s constitution when Obasanjo was president, an appointee to the Board must be a man of integrity. The membership, as prescribed by the constitution, was to be made up of former and serving presidents, vice presidents, past and serving national chairmen, secretaries of the party, former and serving presidents of the Senate, Speakers of the House of Representatives as well as founding fathers and mothers of the party.
 The BOT was then also purely an honorary one. The former constitution also gave BOT members  the opportunity to “elect a chairman and secretary from amongst its members.”

The chairman and secretary of BOT are members of the NEC of the party.
Though it was designed to be an independent body, the BOT, especially under Anenih, hardly held meetings, as it was subservient to Obasanjo.
However, the former president and other leaders of the party, including Anenih, approved of the amendments to the membership criteria of the BOT last December. The amended provision, which was done to ensure Obasanjo’s  continued relevance within the party, stated that “the Board of Trustees shall elect a chairman and secretary from members of the board. The chairman and the secretary shall also be members of the national executive committee (b) without prejudice to the provision of this constitution, ensure that an elected chairman is either a former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, produced by the party or in the absence of such; (ii) A former national chairman of the party; or iii) A person of proven integrity who has contributed immensely to the growth of the party.

The constitution was also amended to give new powers to the BOT chairman. “The Board of Trustees, which is also the advisory council on policies and programmes, shall through its chairman (a) Ensure highest standard of morality in all activities of the party by acting as the conscience of the party and its guide on diplomacy, policies and programmes with power to call to order any officer of the party whose conduct falls below the norms.”
 
The constitution also provides that the Board  shall harmonise, coordinate, review and advise on policies, programmes and activities of the party at the national level as well as be vested with the assets of the party and serve as custodians of such assets.
 Maduekwe said the amendment was made because of “the need to reposition our great party to meet the challenges of the current reforms”.

Thus, as BOT Chairman, Obasanjo has the power to sanction anyone, including the President. Already, many have expressed fears that the former president may grow more powerful than the National Chairman, given his domineering attitude.
Similar fears have been expressed over Obasanjo’s position as the party’s life leader, which many see as a potential ground for conflict between the National Chairman, his successor or even Yar’Adua, who is the leader of the party. Gbenga Akinnawo, a columnist with The Nation, sees danger in the power granted the BOT Chairman to call any erring party official to order. “Who determines when the conduct of any officer falls below the norms?” he asked.
 
He also expressed worry that Obasanjo’s vindictive nature may push him to misuse his power, asking: “Will Obasanjo not use this provision to deal with some members who, at one time or the other, crossed his path?”

Obasanjo’s assumption of office as BOT Chairman is also being interpreted as the final stage of his move to regain power through the back door.
Those who hold this position reckon that since Yar’Adua is an Obasanjo creation he would remain indebted to Obasanjo and may not be his own man. The same, analysts argue, could also happen to the Vice President, who in any case is expected to take orders from Yar’Adua.


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Obasanjo was also responsible for the emergence of David Mark as Senate President and Mrs. Olubunmi Etteh as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Indeed, this was one of the early indications of friction between Obasanjo and Anenih.
Without Obasanjo’s intervention, Mark would have had it tough becoming the Senate President, as supporters of his opponent, George Akume, were already making progress among freshly elected senators. Obasanjo got the party leadership to adopt Mark as the party’s sole candidate for Senate Presidency just before the inauguration of the new Senate. Obasanjo’s preference for Mark is thought to be a reward for the latter’s role in the failed tenure extension plot. The extent of Obasanjo’s influence was revealed in the threat issued by the PDP National Chairman that the party will sanction any member who failed to align with the party’s position on Senate Presidency.
But a group of senators, made up of former governors, decided to prop Akume. Anenih supported this with his political machinery–to Obasanjo’s chagrin.
Anenih was said to have encouraged the new senators to dump Mark for Akume, a development that was reported to Obasanjo by Mark’s supporters. Obasanjo was said to have phoned Anenih, warning him to call his supporters to order.
Obasanjo was also said to have phoned Yar’Adua to get his feelings on the matter. The President was said to have expressed support for the party’s position, dashing Anenih’s hopes. Mark won with 68 votes to Akume’s 39.

But among those that voted for Akume were the three Senators from Edo State, the footstool of Anenih. This was an indication that the former police officer was minded to challenge Obasanjo’s hold on the party. Mrs. Etteh, the party’s choice as Speaker of the House of Representatives, emerged after Obasanjo commanded party members to vote for her. The belief among political observers is that it will be difficult for the two leaders to go against the former president. To show his gratitude for the role played in ensuring his emergence as Senate President, one of the first places Mark visited after his election was Obasanjo’s Ota farm.

There are other emerging signals of the former president’s move to have an overwhelming influence on Yar’Adua’s administration. It was gathered last week that one of the reasons the ministerial list was being delayed was to take care of interests loyal to Obasanjo, who were not in the list prepared when he was in Jamaica.
 For instance, Obasanjo is said to be insisting on the inclusion of one of his former advisers, who hails from Ekiti State. The former president is also pushing for the inclusion of some ministers who served in his government.
 Yar’Adua has already been forced to retain two key Obasanjo aides. They are Generals Abdullahi Mohammed, Chief of Staff, and Sarki Mukhtar, National Security Adviser.
 
But Farouk Lawan, a PDP member in the House of Representatives, defended this move, saying: “For the purpose of continuity and stability, it is good for him to keep some of his predecessor’s key people.”

However, the question being asked is: will Yar’Adua’s government have his own complexion, given the heavy presence of Obasanjo’s acolytes? Many people already believe that policies and programmes of the new administration will continue to emanate from Ota farm or, as in the case of the expected ministerial list, must be vetted by Obasanjo before implementation.
Yar’Adua’s defence is that the party has a role to play. He, however, added that he derives his powers from the constitution.
 
Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former governor of Kaduna State, is one of those who believe that Yar’Ardua would remain perpetually tied to Obasanjo’s apron strings. “Yar’Adua already told the nation that he would implement the policies of his predecessor. He retained the aides of Obasanjo and the ones he appointed at the twilight of his administration. So, the allegation that Yar’Adua is a surrogate to Obasanjo has been confirmed by Yar’Adua himself. He has started with what characterized the eight-year administration of Obasanjo. There was always workers’ strike each time Obasanjo displayed arrogance and indifference. And it is very unfortunate that he is doing the same thing so early.”
Speaking after the election of Obasanjo as the BOT chairman, Yar’Adua pledged to continue in the footsteps of Obasanjo, saying his predecessor has left “a legacy of service” and that he would be guided by the PDP manifesto.
 
How does this stand when bounced against Yar’Adua’s repeated claim that he would not be putty in Obasanjo’s hands? To many, not very well. But Yar’Adua’s response to that question has remained firm, if unconvincing. Asked the same question by a foreign journalist, Yar’Adua responded: “Puppet? You obviously don’t know me. I am nobody’s puppet.”
 
It was gathered that the desire to gain control of the party and to ensure relevance in the Yar’Adua administration was the cause of the Obasanjo/Anenih face-off. However, some analysts ascribe the tiff to the failure of the third term project. TheNEWS gathered that Obasanjo believes that Anenih was not fully committed to the project. The gulf between the two men widened in the run-in to the last election, when Anenih supported Senator Ifeanyi Araraume against Engineer Festus Ugwuh for the party’s gubernatorial ticket in Imo State. Araraume eventually won the ticket through a court ruling, after being disqualified by the party despite winning the primaries.

However, the party contrived to deny him victory, conceding the state to the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) when it announced that it was fielding no candidate for the election.

Obasanjo also hurt Anenih when he disqualified Anenih’s candidate, Elder Odion Ugbesia from the PDP governorship primaries in Edo State in favour of Senator Osunbor who went on to win the election. Obasanjo had argued then that Ugbesia, now a Senator, was corrupt.
 
The contest to instal the Senate President was the last episode before Anenih’s deposition as BOT Chairman last week. Party sources said Obasanjo had to move fast, given the stiff fight Anenih put up in the bid to make his candidate Senate President. The former president was said to have been scared that Anenih might succeed in widening his already considerable influence in the PDP and eventually get the constitution amended before the expiration of his tenure in November. The former president is also thought to have quickly taken his new position with a view to preventing powerful members, who had defected, from returning to hijack the party. The party is currently making efforts to bring back members who quit the party for a variety of reasons connected with Obasanjo.

Those being wooed to return to the party include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former National Chairman, Chief Solomon Lar; Chief Sunday Awoniyi, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi and former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Kalu.
For years, Obasanjo and Anenih constituted one of Nigeria’s most formidable political couples. The union seemed like one made in heaven. Obasanjo, extrovert and brash, received immense assistance from the withdrawn but wily Anenih in his bid to take over the PDP. Many of the former president’s decisions early in his reign, when he was a political neophyte, were said to have been products of Anenih’s intrigue-infested head.

Anenih was credited with Obasanjo’s success at decimating the influence of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), the strongest of the disparate groups that coalesced into the PDP. The group was led by Atiku Abubakar.
On assumption of office as President, Obasanjo was said to have tasked Anenih, a member of the PDM, to help him create a political base of his own. Part of this was the enthronement of Chief Barnabas Gemade as PDP National Chairman in 1999. The former Minister of Works was accused of bribing each delegate to the convention with N50,000, disguised as “sleeping allowance”.
He also successfully installed his wife, Josephine, as PDP National Women’s leader at the same convention.

This magazine also gathered that when the going was good between the former president and the ex- police officer, all the financial grants to the party were routed through him as he was assigned the job of “screening and approval” of potential appointees. At a caucus meeting, Chief Alex Ekwueme, then BOT Chairman, was said to have accused Obasanjo and Anenih of excluding other party leaders in the distribution of patronage.

Anenih, alias “The Leader,” was also the alleged hatchet man in the removal of the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, also a PDM man, as Senate President. But his attempt to repeat the trick against Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who had a running battle with Obasanjo, was resisted by members of the House. The House later passed a vote-of-no-confidence on Anenih, for gross inefficiency as Works and Housing Minister.

Despite the thickness of disgust for Anenih in some quarters, he remained in Obasanjo’s good books till the end of the administration’s first term.
When Obasanjo visited Edo State in the year 2000, for instance, he introduced Anenih to Oba Erediauwa, the Oba of Benin, as “my man”. He also openly referred to Anenih as “Leader”. Anenih was also said to have been close to Obasanjo’s late wife Stella, an Esan like Anenih. “While Stella was alive, she saw Anenih as her father. That is the tradition in Esan and by extension, Obasanjo sees Anenih as his in-law. That is why Obasanjo calls Anenih Leader,” said an Aso Rock source.
And when Atiku was being primed for the presidency in 2003, Anenih at a public forum in Rivers State, advised those aspiring to succeed Obasanjo in 2003 to forget the idea “as there is no vacancy in Aso Rock”.
 
Anenih’s tenure as Minister of Works and Housing was characterised by controversies. More than four years after he left office, many Nigerians are still asking him to account for about N300 billion budgeted for road repairs across the country. There were also specific allegations of corruption against him. These included the contract for the renovation of the Eagle Square, which the Senate Committee on Works and Housing discovered was awarded to a company owned by Anenih’s son at the sum of N14 million. But the report of a committee set up to investigate the allegations was not released.

Full text of the statement released by Peoples Democratic Party After The BOT Election Meeting on 27 June 2007.
Building On Our Heritage

You may recall that at the last National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), an amendment to the Party Constitution in respect of Article 12(77) was effected so that the said Article 12(77) was now to read:
(a) “The Board of Trustees shall elect Chairman and Secretary from members of the Board. The Chairman and Secretary shall also be members of the National Executive Committee;
(b) Without prejudice to the provision of this constitution, ensures that an elected Chairman is;
i. either a former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria produced by the party or in the absence of such;
ii. a former National Chairman of the party who has distinguished himself in the service of the party;
iii. a person of proven integrity who has contributed immensely to the growth of the party
(c.) Regulate its own proceedings.”

Furthermore, Article 12 (80) was also amended. The Article before the amendment barely spelt out the functions of the Board of Trustees (BOT) without reflecting the synergy between government and party which the new PDP considered to be very vital for the continuity of the Reform Programme and the other excellent policy initiatives of government.
It did not facilitate the institutional memory which a party of continuity with change obviously needed in order to transform the country along fairly predictable policy directions.
Accordingly, the phrase “the Board of Trustees shall” under Article 12 (80) of the Constitution was now rephrased to read “The Board of Trustees (BOT) which is also the advisory council on policies and programmes shall through its Chairman:
(a) Ensure a high standard of morality in all the activities of the party by acting as the conscience of the party.
(b) Ensure high morale of members of the party.
(c) Harmonise/coordinate/ review and advise on party policies.
(d) Coordinate the sourcing of party funds.
(e) Be vested with the assets of the party and shall serve as custodians of such assets
(f) Mediate in disputes between the Executive and Legislative arms of Government
(g) Offer advice on party matters to the National Executive Committee of the party;
(h) Attend any meetings of any other organs of the party, except the National Caucus;
(i) Give advice on any party matters to the National Executive Committee of the party; and
(j) Undertake all other functions and activities as may be referred to it by the National Executive Committee or the National Convention.

Accordingly, the National Caucus of the party which under Section 12 (68A) of the party constitution has two primary functions, namely, to harmonise the relationship between the Executive and Legislative arms of Government and coordinate the activities of the party to consider, review and advise on policies and programmes for government, directed the BOT to meet today June 27, 2007 to ratify and implement decisions of the party.

Pursuant to decisions of both the National Caucus and the National Executive Committee, the BOT met today to effect the change contemplated by the new amendment which change was merely a constitutional issue that has to align the position of the BOT Chairman with the amendment that only in the absence of a former President produced by the party could the BOT Chairman position be held by a person who has not previously been a President. Based on the aforementioned, the PDP Board of Trustees meeting which was well attended resolved to elect, and did so elect, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, as its new BOT Chairman and former Governor of Nassarawa State, Governor Adamu Abdullahi, as its new Secretary.
Both distinguished officials have since resumed duty.

The meeting was attended by both old and new members of the board, including the National Chairman of the Party, Sen. (Dr.) Ahmadu Ali, the President, Alh. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Senate President, Senator David Mark, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Patricia Etteh, former Senate Presidents, Sen. Evans Enwerem and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, founding members of the party, elected representatives of the zones of the BOT and female members of the Board.

The meeting also reviewed the political situation in the country and commended President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for the way he was setting up the government.
Members noted, in particular, the accommodating spirit of the President and urged all Nigerians to cooperate with the administration to move Nigeria to the next level. In his acceptance speech, the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, pledged to put in his best to ensure that the Board of Trustees lived up to its constitutional duty of serving as the conscience of the party and advising the government in policy matters.

He called for the cooperation of all party members in the task of building a more united and focused party. He also said the Board will make it a point of duty to reconcile aggrieved members of the party. He said the country required all positive and constructive hands to be on deck if the country is to optimally utilise the present opportunity of building a new Nigeria .

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