Osinbajo, a lawyer who is seen as more business-friendly than Buhari, played an active role in driving policy changes during the president’s seven-week absence. “I deliberately came back towards the weekend so that the vice-president will continue and I will continue to rest,” Buhari said at the presidential villa. His spokesman Femi Adesina later said Buhari would formally notify parliament on Monday that he was back in charge. He is a northern Muslim, while Osinbajo is a lawyer from Nigeria’s predominantly Christian south, a political arrangement that reflects Nigeria’s broad geographic and religious divisions. While Buhari was away, the central bank also devalued the naira for retail customers and investors hope for more.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 12, 2017 17:24 UTC