Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Friday, December 11, 2009

Analysis of Nigeria

Robert Amsterdam, an international lawyer, offered an analysis of Nigeria for The Huffington Post yesterday. Like most of the opinion from Nigeria, he assumes that the country needs a powerful president who is healthy and not out of the country.

Nigeria's Crisis of Leadership
Nigeria is currently without a leader, as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua flew to Saudi Arabia in late November for treatment of his kidney ailments and a serious heart condition, and hasn't been heard from since...

When a leader is ill and absent, a country cannot function, and for Nigeria, the costs have been very high... His approval of the state budget has been repeatedly delayed... infighting and disobedience within state ministries has proliferated. Worst of all, the president's low profile has allowed for widespread abuses of power for personal enrichment and settling of scores...


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