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Buhari's endless foreign gallivanting amidst total paralysis of economic policy has finally caught the eye of even international news agencies like Reuters.
Isn't this exactly what I've been saying for some time now? Buhari wants to call all the shots, rendering meaningless any expertise those working under him may have. Of course, that doesn't mean they avoid having to carry the blame if things go wrong ... But wait, there's more!
Sai Baba, world tourist extraordinaire! What exactly is the point of having a foreign minister when the President is abroad more often than not? And anyway, how does drumming up interest from investors reconcile with making your currency nonconvertible except at an uncompetitive rate? Does Buhari really think his personal visits will count for more in investors' eyes than Nigeria's de-listing from the JP Morgan Emerging Market Bond Index?
Some more from the article on the administrative chaos that seems to reign under our absentee President.
Dis no be wetin I don tell una? Buhari refuses to delegate even to those who know better, and even if he were 100% devoted to governing, this micromanaging attitude would eventually bring all decision-making to a halt. The thing is, Buhari clearly doesn't have his focus entirely (or even mainly) on the less exciting, routine aspects of governance. I guess this means Osinbajo to the rescue, right? Just wait a minute ...
In other words, we now have the worst of both worlds, a President who doesn't seem to care about anything except traveling and a selective anti-corruption campaign, and yet who refuses to let anyone else make decisions on all of the matters he neither has a competence nor an interest in. Accomplished, highly-educated men and women are basically reduced to mere window-dressing by our micromanager-in-chief.
Buhari's endless foreign gallivanting amidst total paralysis of economic policy has finally caught the eye of even international news agencies like Reuters.
Almost a year after winning an election on promises to fix Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari's grand vision of reform is fading, with power centralized in his increasingly remote presidency and the bureaucracy in disarray.
After axing almost 50 top civil servants and 40 ambassadors and shaking up ministries in a bid to excise endemic graft, the 73-year-old former military ruler has even started cancelling some weekly cabinet meetings.
His aides said this was because under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, the meeting had become a forum for ministers to hand out over-priced contracts to friends.
Critics say the effect has been to leave government rudderless while Africa's biggest economy flatlines.
Power is concentrated in Buhari's office, where files pile up on the desk of his chief of staff. Ministers appointed only in November - more than six months after Buhari's victory - are reluctant to make decisions, diplomats say.
After axing almost 50 top civil servants and 40 ambassadors and shaking up ministries in a bid to excise endemic graft, the 73-year-old former military ruler has even started cancelling some weekly cabinet meetings.
His aides said this was because under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, the meeting had become a forum for ministers to hand out over-priced contracts to friends.
Critics say the effect has been to leave government rudderless while Africa's biggest economy flatlines.
Power is concentrated in Buhari's office, where files pile up on the desk of his chief of staff. Ministers appointed only in November - more than six months after Buhari's victory - are reluctant to make decisions, diplomats say.
Buhari is too often absent to provide enough personal guidance, according to his critics.
Since taking office in May, he has been on 26 overseas trips, visiting Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, where officials say he hopes to drum up interest from investors.
His opponents complain that his external focus comes at the expense of the two pillars of the domestic economy - the oil-producing Niger Delta and Lagos, the sprawling megacity that serves as Nigeria's commercial capital.
He has visited neither as president.
Since taking office in May, he has been on 26 overseas trips, visiting Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, where officials say he hopes to drum up interest from investors.
His opponents complain that his external focus comes at the expense of the two pillars of the domestic economy - the oil-producing Niger Delta and Lagos, the sprawling megacity that serves as Nigeria's commercial capital.
He has visited neither as president.
Some more from the article on the administrative chaos that seems to reign under our absentee President.
Buhari fired most of the top management at state oil firm NNPC but his replacements have struggled to get a grip on the massive and opaque entity, officials say. Some projects have been delayed as the newcomers struggle to locate the relevant files in the four NNPC towers.
With no regular meetings, ministers are still trying to figure out what they can achieve, officials say. Buhari merged several ministries but since a cabinet retreat in November, he has left them to drift.
Buhari's aides counter that the cabinet meets whenever there is something to decide, and that the government needs time to work out detailed plans - including funding - for such daunting tasks as road-building or the improvement of Nigeria's notoriously erratic power supply.
But a senior civil servant who asked not to be named said ministers struggled to get the attention of Buhari's office.
"There is a proposal, a consultancy does a study but then the report gets ignored," he said.
With no regular meetings, ministers are still trying to figure out what they can achieve, officials say. Buhari merged several ministries but since a cabinet retreat in November, he has left them to drift.
Buhari's aides counter that the cabinet meets whenever there is something to decide, and that the government needs time to work out detailed plans - including funding - for such daunting tasks as road-building or the improvement of Nigeria's notoriously erratic power supply.
But a senior civil servant who asked not to be named said ministers struggled to get the attention of Buhari's office.
"There is a proposal, a consultancy does a study but then the report gets ignored," he said.
Buhari asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to coordinate economic policy, but diplomats say he is being sidelined as the president personally handles all key issues, including a freeze of the naira exchange rate that is crippling investment.
That leaves businessmen wondering how the West African oil producer can survive its worst economic crisis for decades.
"Policy statements hang but there's no trickle down," said Prince Ike Ubaka, head of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria.
That leaves businessmen wondering how the West African oil producer can survive its worst economic crisis for decades.
"Policy statements hang but there's no trickle down," said Prince Ike Ubaka, head of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria.
