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Feedback: The President of Nigeria is (almost certainly) not a clone

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12 December 2018

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Paul McDevitt

Only the clonely

THE Nigerian president is not a clone. Or, at least, he isn’t admitting it if he is. Which is fair enough, really, if you consider what a bum rap clones tend to get. They are like evil twins, aren’t they, only eviller and more twinny, and without the little goatee beard that lets you know which twin to blast out of the airlock.

So Muhammadu Buhari – clone or otherwise – is playing a shrewd game. So long as he holds off inviting journalists to an underground genetics laboratory located in a hall of mirrors during a…

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