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The acting president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan |
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has dissolved the government. |
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The announcement comes a month |
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after he assumed executive powers |
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because of the long illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua. |
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Peter Greste reports from Abuja. |
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There has been talk of a cabinet reshuffle |
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for weeks now, |
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ever since the national assembly moved Goodluck Jonathan |
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from vice president to acting president two months ago. |
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But few people expected the wholesale dissolution |
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that came on Wednesday. |
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He made no public statement, |
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but the outgoing Information Minister Dora Akunyili |
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said parliament's secretaries would take charge of the ministries |
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until a cabinet is appointed. |
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Not all ministers will lose their jobs, |
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some will be reappointed, |
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but this kind of sweeping change makes it clear |
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the acting president is trying to assert his control |
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over the cabinet made up largely of President Yar'Adua's appointees. |