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Southern governors to sue Obasanjo over oil revenue

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    Governors of Nigeria’s 17 southern states have threatened to sue President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government to compel him to share out additional oil revenue that accrued from high world oil prices if he does not do so in three weeks, the ‘Vanguard’ newspaper reported on Sunday.

    The newspaper said the governors, who met in the southeastern city of Enugu last week to work out common positions, felt that the federal government was violating constitutional provisions by holding on to an estimated US $1.3 billion in additional funds that accrued from crude oil sales in 2000.

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