Nigeria: political risk status quo in finance ministry
- September 17, 2018
- - 4:10 pm
Summary The September 17 appointment of Zainab Ahmed as acting Finance Minister means political risk status quo for this department of the Nigerian government. Analysis Zainab Ahmed was appointed acting Finance Minister September 17 to take over from Kemi Adeosun, who resigned her position days earlier. The appointment of Zainab, who had been minister of state for budget and national planning, places a technocrat in charge of the department, and defends the status quo with other powerful institutions Adeosun had believed run afoul of. Adeosun’s resignation on September 14 raised concern that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was deliberately compromising …
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