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Question King Charles III Asked Me - Buhari ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Buhari #Charles #Muhammadu #OsazuwaAkonedo #UK https://osazuwaakonedo.news/question-king-charles-iii-asked-me-buhari/18/11/2022/ By Femi Adesina
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by femi adesina
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Dash
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during his recent trip to London for
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routine medical checkup president
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muhammadu buhari had time to meet and
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greet newly crowned King Charles 111 at
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Buckingham Palace the president
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recounted the encounter thus later
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he asked me whether I have a house here
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I said no even in Nigeria the only
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houses I have are those I had before I
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got into government I'm not very much
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interested in having assets all over the
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place I feel much Freer when I have
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nothing
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what a man what a leader ascetic austere
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abstinent where did he come from in this
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day and age
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the scripture that came to mind at the
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encounter between the two leaders was
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Luke 12 15 where Jesus said take heat
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and beware of covetousness for a man's
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life consisteth not in the abundance of
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the things which he possesseth
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this should not be muhammadu buhari a
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man who had been military governor of
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the then Northeastern State which was
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made up of present-day adamawa bauchi
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Borno gombe taraba and yubi states
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Six States which he could have fleeced
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and stolen blind
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then he became minister of petroleum for
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over three years Head of State for 20
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months chairman of petroleum trust fund
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where he sat over money in scores of
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billions and now elected president for
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two terms about concluding his eighth
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year in office
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yet he feels Freer when he has nothing
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naturally such people should not know
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the number of houses they have in major
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capitals of the world the number of
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accounts they hold in Banks both locally
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and internationally women in their Harem
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and Wild Oats own home and abroad but
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not buhari where did this man come from
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and do they make them like this anymore
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he asked whether I have a house here I
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said no a house King Charles 111 should
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have asked of houses that is what men in
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buhari's position have all over Great
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Britain other capitals of the world and
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Counting
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even in Nigeria the only houses I have
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are those I had before I got into
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government holy Moses didn't the
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contractors give him houses as gifts
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after smiling to the banks with Hefty
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profits from jobs done not even a talk
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of kickbacks from jobs not done but paid
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for kohari gohari chai buhari where did
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you come from
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and then the Clincher I'm not very much
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interested in having assets all over the
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place I feel much Freer when I have
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nothing
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buhariu what manner of man are you I
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feel much Freer when I have nothing good
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bomb you now know why we love the man
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why we trust him and why we serve him
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our treasury is Safe in His Hands our
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Commonwealth is kept preserved and used
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for the good of the people
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look at Great infrastructure projects
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embarked on by buhari roads rail Bridges
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airports akk pipelines photo Bonnie
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project which will link Bonnie Island by
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road to the outside world for the first
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time in human history
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such huge projects are never done by a
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leader who has come to steal kill and
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destroy that is why those projects had
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only been imagined and never done by
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previous administrations what would they
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pocket if they had spent money on such
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humongous projects but trust buhari the
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man who feels Freer when he is nothing
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to have embarked on such projects many
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of which are being concluded now
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I feel much Freer when I have nothing
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don't we see the wisdom in this you live
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better when your basic needs are met you
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sleep better without worries you face
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eternity much more confidently and you
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meet your God better prepared
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am I advocating poverty by no means
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president buhari is not poor he's just
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contented he doesn't have an octopus
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complex that gets you grabbing
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everything in sight though he has the
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opportunity group CEO of nnpc limited
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melee Colo Carrie had told me one day
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I've never seen a leader like President
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buhari not once has he sent anybody to
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me with an instruction give this person
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a contract or bring this amount of money
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never not once he's an amazing man
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that's why he is the best person to
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spearhead all the reforms in the oil and
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gas industry
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of course we knew how leaders treated
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the nnpc even the Central Bank Customs
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Federal Inland Revenue Service Nigerian
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Ports Authority nuasa and all the other
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Revenue generating agencies like a gravy
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train which they dip their hands into at
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will those places served as sources of
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free cash for themselves their families
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political parties and cronies but not
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buhari the Man simply wants nothing he
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feels Freer when he has nothing
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I remember myself as a simple Nigerian
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journalist just enjoying the job and not
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having the slightest ambition to ever
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serving government because I wanted
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nothing a friend who had read me
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religiously over the years his name is
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japheth oguni had visited me one day at
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the Sun newspapers I don't know what led
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him to ask whether I could ever serve in
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government without giving it a thought I
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said an emphatic no what was I going to
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do in government with all the Tendencies
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and predilections for filthy looker no I
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was not wired that way neither was I so
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trained by PA adesina that great
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educationist and disciplinarian
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but japheth probed further you can't
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serve even in a buhari government but
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you admire the man so much and write so
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fervently about him
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I paused gave the idea of thought that
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was at a time when a buhari presidency
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seemed so far-fetched and improbable
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so I told my friend well I can serve a
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bohari because he's an honest man and he
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will run an honest government
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there didn't seem to be chance of such
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ever happening at that time but it
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eventually did and definitely even
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reluctantly I left what I was doing to
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serve an honest man the morning I was to
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turn in my letter of resignation as
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managing director editor-in-chief of the
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Sun newspapers I woke by 5am and started
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crying I did to my heart's content when
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I held the last meeting with the
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management team in the office later that
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day it was a festival of tears all round
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men women we were not ashamed we cried
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but I left to serve a honest man who
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feels a lot Freer when he is nothing
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wouldn't you rather serve that kind of
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person for me it was a huge sacrifice
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but I'll do it over and over again for
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God for country and for a honest man
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in 1994 I became a Buddhist when he was
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military head of state I supported him
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in 2003 2007 2011 2015 and 2019 because
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he's an honest man the mygascia and what
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can a country do without honest
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leadership righteousness exalts a nation
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but sin is a reproach to any people says
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the good book when does another buhari
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come this way they don't make them like
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that anymore
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some cynics would definitely say if
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buhari was that clean why is there still
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so much corruption in the country the
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answer is simple corruption is being
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vigorously fought and the statistics are
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clear in terms of comparative number of
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convictions between what used to be and
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what subsists now but if a single man
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remains squeaky clean in a forest of
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corruption should he then be guilty by
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association nah let him that is
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righteous be righteous still let him
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that is filthy be filthy still behold I
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come quickly and my reward is with me to
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repay everyone as his work shall be that
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is from the great book the book of books
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it's the conclusion of the whole matter
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I feel much Freer when I have nothing
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very true when I have nothing then I
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have everything just like buhari
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at View's exclusive rights femi adesina
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special advisor to president buhari on
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media and publicity November 18 2022
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