Acting President

So, Nigeria's Acting President has finally started acting like one. Having dissolved the ailing President's cabinet, he is making very popular appointments and some would say consolidating his hold on power.



My interest however is in this term Acting President. What does that really mean? Does that mean that the AP is holding fort for the "Real" President? In which case, the AP should only do things that the RP has asked him to do? Does his appointment ever get confirmed? Under what conditions?



On the face of it though, Mr AP is going about his business and starting to give a sense that Nigeria is on the move forward again. He appears to have ditched the 7 point(less) agenda and is making noises of sorting out one thing. He has at least stopped Nigeria being the butt of all jokes. Possibly because he knows he is only "acting" i.e. he only has a fixed term that is not likely to be renewed.



In the end, possibly the problem with Nigeria's leaders is that they don't realise that they are "Acting". We need more Acting Governors, Ministers, Commissioners etc. And maybe if that happened, we would have more people doing their jobs properly.