By Daily Trust On August 13, 2023, a 47-second video that circulated on the internet and was widely shared on WhatsApp suggested that the President of the United States of America (USA), Joe Biden, said, “Nigeria is the only country where a dead man has been ruling the country for six years without them knowing.”...
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