Key questions this article answers:
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What are the main differences so far between the Tinubu and Buhari administrations?
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What do those differences mean for the country?
For someone who pledged several times during the campaign to build on President Buhari’s legacy, President Tinubu has quickly dismantled significant parts of it.
An end to the currency subsidy in the primary forex market came on the heels of CBN governor Godwin Emefiele’s suspension. Before that was an end to a decades-long fuel subsidy and a student loan bill that means federal funding of tertiary education may also be at an end. EFCC Chair? Suspended. Boards of Ministries, Departments and Agencies? Dissolved. Service chiefs? Replaced. It’s been an action-packed six weeks.
His actions since taking office indicate that he was paying mere lip service to his predecessor’s record to avoid alienating too many of Buhari’s loyal supporters. The realpolitik calculation worked. Votes
