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 | | Goje's victory represents the culmination of struggle, not so much of an individual one by Goje, but a collective one by the PDP to wrest power form the current government of Alhaji Abubakar Habu Hashidu of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a struggle that began in the twilight of the military administration in 1998. |
 | | The significance of this episode lies in the fact that although they were not politicians, the visitors must have felt that the government at home had either not been addressing their problems with resources at its disposal, or had not been articulation these interests to the appropriate quarters. |
 | | Admittedly, Goje's powers as a minister of state were limited to the extend that he could not single-handedly earmark projects for his home sate and execute them as a governor would. |
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