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Obasanjo, saying "I beg of you, for your own good and for our country's good, make a simple announcement to say that you are not interested in a Third Term and that you plan to go back to Otta in 2007."
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819:"Yar'Adua: I Owe Awoniyi Purposeful Leadership"
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