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I Tried to Get Mugabe, Nkomo to Kill Each Other - Obasanjo

Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said he wanted Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe and his political opponent Joshua Nkomo to kill each other - "I had them sitting beside me. I had two pistols loaded so I said to them, 'I will give you each a gun so you can fight. The one who dies we will bury him here while the one who wins will go and fight the struggle," said Obasanjo.

 

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Nigerian former president Olusegun Obsanjo, former president Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe with late former political opponent Joshua Nkomo.

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