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Headlines : Government

Summary:

Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua had planned so many changes when he took his seat earlier this year – battling poverty and all the problems in the oil-producing regions were reportedly at the top of the list.

Unfortunately for him, his loyalty to his predecessor and party big-wigs is already ruining any chances of what could be. With his corrupt friends taking up several key governmental positions, and a general lack of initiative on the side of his own party, it looks as if the biggest obstacles in President Yar’Adua’s way are those closest to him.

[Posted By mercenary]

By The Economist Print Edition
Republished from The Economist

The new president is looking hamstrung even before he gets going

When Umaru Yar’Adua took his presidential oath on May 29th, he promised to be a “servant leader” and to move speedily towards solving Nigeria’s most pressing problems: insurgency and gangsterism in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, an appallingly erratic supply of electricity, and massive endemic corruption. Almost two months later the former chemistry teacher, one of only three post-colonial Nigerian rulers not to have hailed from a military background, has yet to announce his full ministerial team to help him run one of Africa’s most troubled and important countries.

The process is tortuously slow because the beleaguered Mr Yar’Adua is under pressure to serve the interests both of Nigeria’s powerful political factions and of the allies of Olusegun Obasanjo, his predecessor and mentor, who is still pulling strings as the ruling party’s chairman.

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Posted by mercenary
I'm an exile; I write to combine my interest in media, politics, the interesting, and of course the meaning of Liff. I've been a media student, an English Literature undergrad, a radio host and a few other things to pass the time. I've been properly...

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