It’s a telling indictment of the decision-making process – and prowess – of the Buhari administration that it needs the next three months to do what it had the previous twenty four to accomplish.
The shortness of the extension of IGP Adamu’s stay in office beyond the statutory limit is an untidy compromise between contending influences.
Last time it happened, a slew of federal permanent secretaries due for retirement got longer tenure extension in order “to guide incoming ministers.”
Decisions like these are coming almost by reflex; by 2023 tenure extension may have become more the norm than the exception.
Usman writes from Kaduna
