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Nigeria: Rift between President Obasanjo, Vice President Atiku deepens.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Nigerian newspaper This Day website on 7 April

In yet another public confirmation of the rift in the Presidency, Vice-President Atiku Abubakar yesterday morning declared that he was prepared to bear the consequences of his opposition to a third term in office for President Olusegun Obasanjo.

But in a swift reaction yesterday, Obasanjo's special assistant on public affairs, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said Atiku should resign his office having shown himself to be disloyal.

The vice-president, for the first time, disclosed that he had suffered untold humiliation in the last three …

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