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President warns of secession build-up

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    The introduction of Sharia in parts of the north, the crises in the Niger Delta and an upsurge in militant ethnic organisations are all aimed at destabilising Nigeria, President Olusegun Obasanjo was reported as saying.

    He told members of the Obasanjo Leadership Forum (OLF), who visited him at State House in Abuja on Tuesday, that the government had information that there were already well-orchestrated plots by unnamed sections of the country to secede, ‘The Guardian’ reported.

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