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Nigeria: Governors want vice president sworn in as acting president.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by private Nigerian newspaper The Guardian website on 6 February

[Report by Madu Onuorah: "Govs Want Jonathan Sworn in as Acting President on Tuesday"]

Governors of the 36 states of the federation, under the Governors' Forum, were at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday for a solidarity visit to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan over the ongoing constitutional crisis.

The governors also announced plans to visit the National Assembly next week to press home their resolve that the lawmakers pass a resolution that would enable the Vice President assume the power of an Acting President, pending the return of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. …

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