Umahi who has said he wants administrative restructuring rather than a new fiscal compact is rumoured to be interested in succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari and is therefore wary of offending Abuja (AC Vol 58 No 20 Homage to Catalonia)...

Until now APC-controlled states even those in the south have been less enthusiastic about restructuring than their PDP counterparts partly because it evidently isn't a priority for President Muhammadu Buhari...

Even before the ink was dry officials and their sponsors had already begun to lobby for top jobs in the new oil sector management structures created by the Petroleum Industry Act signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on 16 August (AC Vol 62 No 14 A last bid for oil investors)...

Rawlings Agada Information Director at the National Assembly told journalists last month that the drafting teams there would have to check thoroughly that the agreed amendments from each chamber had been accurately represented in the 252-page bill before it is sent for signature to President Muhammadu Buhari in London until the second week of August...

Critics of indirect primaries such as President Muhammadu Buhari argued they give a disproportionate influence to incumbent governors and associated godfathers...

Kanu also appears to have rich backers enough to pay for a US$80 000 a month lobbying campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari's government firstly with Mercury Public Affairs until March and then with the BW Global Group of partners Jeffrey Birrell and Alan White...

It was drafted by a committee of technical experts chaired by Mele Kyari Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to meet benchmarks set by President Muhammadu Buhari: to promote accountability; to stop political interference and end state funding of operations; to boost revenue and investment; to encourage local refining of oil and gas; and to better protect the environment and local communities...