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Nigeria: How Obasanjo Cut UK, U.S. to Size, By Andrew Young

20 July 2006

Abuja — Delegates to the on-going 7th Leon H. Sullivan Summit in Abuja were last night taken on a historical excursion on how President Olusegun Obasanjo 'cut to size' the United Kingdom and United States of America over the countries' surreptitious support for apartheid South Africa.

Driving the excursion, United States' former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Andrew Young, told the delegates who had gathered at the Banquet Hall, State House, for a state banquet, that Obasanjo, as former Nigeria's military head of state forced the United States and the United Kingdom to review their positions on the apartheid South Africa when he denied the then US Secretary of State, Mr. Henry Kissinger landing in Nigeria for an official visit as well confiscating the UK government's assets in the country.

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