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Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIAN VICE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CLAIMS VINDICATION IN WITHDRAWAL OF COURT CASE

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January 9, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Peter Clottey In Nigeria, the office of the vice president says Atiku Abubakar has been vindicated by the government's withdrawal of a court case seeking to declare the position of vice president vacant. Over the weekend, the government stated that Abubakar remains the Vice President.

Shehu Garuba, the vice president's spokesman, said, "The vice president has always believed that the action of the President was alien to the Nigerian constitution and was therefore an abuse of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So the people who have done this, by their own hand, decided to reverse what they have done. That is to suggest ...

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