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Nigeria - There are 3 striking similarities between the commencement of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and his American counterpart, Barack Obama, according to Stephen Onyeiwu, a Professor of Economics at Allegheny College.
- Like Buhari, Obama not only met an empty treasury but was also saddled with a whopping debt burden of about US$10 trillion – or 72% of GDP.
- Both presidents also inherited expensive and drawn-out wars which they pledged to end. Ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was amajor mantrain Obama’s election campaigns in 2008. In Buhari’s campaign a major platform was the promise to end the scourge of Boko Haram.
- Just as Nigerians clamoured for change during the last elections, Americans desperately wanted change in 2008.
