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#Nigeria: #Ethiopia: The #Nigeria election narrows to Atiku and Obi. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

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#Nigeria: #Ethiopia: The #Nigeria election narrows to Atiku and Obi. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-rights-panel-underfunded-overmatched-begins-probe-powerful-military-2023-02-07/

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This is CBSI and the world I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Copley, Editor and publisher of

0:39.4

Defense and Foreign Affairs, Nigeria, the important election in all of Africa this calendar year

0:45.2

within these next days. The news is an investigation of corruption in the army. Right on the eve

0:52.5

of the election, Gregory, does this favor any particular candidate? The investigation

0:58.1

is getting a lot of media in Nigeria.

1:01.0

Well, it's getting some attention in the media, but there's no shock, no horror about

1:09.9

this, my God, corruption and the armed forces. That has been going on under President

1:16.2

Bihari, the current president of Nigeria, who's a former military leader of Nigeria as

1:23.0

well, the corruption in the armed forces has been profound. It was also profound under

1:29.6

President Goodluck Jonathan before him. And really, this has been coming to a head for

1:37.1

a long time. It will be a factor, but the whole cause of the corruption will be addressed

1:46.1

not by the APC's, you know, follow on candidate from a government tinnoboof from Lagos State,

1:54.4

because he's complicit in the corruption himself. This is a guy who did a plea deal with the

1:58.9

United States Department of Justice and paid for something like $450,000 to escape prosecution

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