Posted on 03/18/2010 12:16:09 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolved the cabinet yesterday as he asserted his authority a month after assuming executive powers.
The powerful governors of Nigeria's 36 states and senior ruling party officials will now put forward nominees for new ministers who will then be screened and approved by the Senate, a process which could take weeks.
In the interim, Mr Jonathan is the sole administrator of Africa's most populous nation, because as acting president he has no deputy in the presidency.
Jonathan took over as acting leader in early February during the three-month absence of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua who was undergoing medical treatment in a Saudi clinic. Yar'Adua has since returned to Nigeria but remains too sick to rule.
Yar'Adua's secretive return in the middle of the night raised fears that his inner circle of aides, led by his wife Turai, would fight to maintain their influence and seek to undermine Jonathan.
The cabinet was made up largely of Yar'Adua appointees.
Jonathan has moved quickly to assert his authority. He had already demoted the former justice minister – a close Yar'Adua ally – and appointed respected ex-military General Theophilus Danjuma as one of his top advisers.
He also sacked the country's national security adviser, a key member of Yar'Adua's inner circle.
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They must have made it out of porous clay.
What does this mean for my Nigerian Lottery winnings. The check is still in the mail, right?
As our own country rapidly becomes a banana-republic we may need to look to Nigeria for help.
There are a lot of good people in Nigeria.
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