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Newspaper from 2005/11/07

Supporters of Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria, have been protesting his exclusion from the country's ruling party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP). The protests have led to the deaths of three members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who were shot by police during a demonstration in Onitsha, Anambra State. The protests have also disrupted traffic on a major bridge connecting the states in the east. Atiku's loyalists have called for the formation of a new political party to contest the 2007 general elections, citing the PDP as no longer a genuine platform for democracy.

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Supporters of Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria, have been protesting his exclusion from the country's ruling party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP). The protests have led to the deaths of three members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who were shot by police during a demonstration in Onitsha, Anambra State. The protests have also disrupted traffic on a major bridge connecting the states in the east. Atiku's loyalists have called for the formation of a new political party to contest the 2007 general elections, citing the PDP as no longer a genuine platform for democracy.

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