Nigeria Proves a Missing President Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing
ABUJA, Nigeria – What was supposed to be a 10-day medical leave for Nigeria's president has stretched into a bizarre 44-day drama. The actors: notoriously out of touch politicians, many of whom are among the highest paid in the world. The audience: More than 180 million Nigerians who are weathering the worst economic downturn of the last quarter century. The twisted saga of Nigeria's missing president has come to symbolize a nation's broken political system. For more than a month now, the country's elected officials have offered contradictory explanations for their leader's absence, alternating between vaguely worded denials that President Muhammadu Buhari is sick and outright lies about his
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