And, if no one bid high enough, then he just might take the seat himself.
At the deadline of 18:00 GMT on Thursday, it had attracted one bid and the sale closed.
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Mr Mbeki was previously coy about that, perhaps hoping to get Africa to agree on just one bid (his own).
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The WRU have made one bid with England and another separate bid with the other home nations for the 2015 showpiece.
It failed to sell the first time it was put up for auction, but on its second listing it attracted one bid.
Keith Evans, the county council's cabinet member responsible for highways, property and works, said the Objective One bid would be made after the feasibility study ends in September.
The Welsh Rugby Union says it has made one bid with the Rugby Football Union - England's governing body - and a separate bid with the other home nations for the 2015 showpiece.
"There is one more bid out there but they've turned it down, " Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
The base at Neatishead, Norfolk, was put up for auction last week and received one anonymous bid.
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Rising above the price of the Getco offer is a likely signal investors anticipate at least one more bid over the top.
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Despite determined efforts by the auctioneer, Henry Wyndham, it raised just one lacklustre bid at the reserve price, selling to Franck Giraud, a New York-based dealer.
By two to one the judges rejected her bid, arguing that one cannot, at one s whims or fancies, renounce or embrace a religion .
Emirates airline has signed a five-year branding deal with Formula One in a bid to boost its global presence.
Coming off of hosting the 2007 Final Four, these groups made the bold decision to place a bid one year later, in 2008.
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Morningstar's Mr Callahan believes that one cause of Capital One's bid for North Fork may have been the purchase by Sovereign Bancorp, an east-coast bank, of Independence Community Bank, a rival to North Fork in and around New York.
Those aghast that a brash antipodean firm should dare to bid for one of the City of London's historic and hallowed institutions may not relish the prospect of a genuine bid.
The analytic literature puts the average winning bid at one-third to two-thirds below competitive prices.
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Seven years on from the bid, one of the largest post-war public works projects has been delivered.
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Meanwhile, England manager Fabio Capello has been named as one of six new bid vice-presidents for the bid.
Will BAE be vulnerable in that period to an opportunistic bid from one of its US rivals, such as Lockheed?
Mill Financial had reportedly emerged at one point with a bid of its own to purchase Liverpool FC, but was unsuccessful.
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The First Minister said they are deciding whether to bid for one of the large training camps to be located in Wales.
The bid was one of five made to buy the club and believed to be one of two shortlisted by administrator Jeremy Bleazard for preferred bidder status.
In Clifden, we grabbed a seat at the Connemara Pony sale, where I had to fight to not bid on one of these special creatures.
Part of this is due to hopes that Diageo or Pernod-Ricard will make a bid for one or the other (or both) as a way to strengthen their position in the lucrative American whiskey market.
His brothers and sisters were bid off one by one, while his mother, holding his hand, looked on in "an agony of grief, " whose meaning only slowly dawned on the little boy as the sale proceeded.
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