When Bola Tinubu, president of Africa’s most populous country, appointed Taiwo Oyedele as Nigeria’s new Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, the immediate reaction focused on tax.
That is understandable. Oyedele built his reputation as one of Nigeria’s best-known voices on tax reform and fiscal modernisation. But viewing his appointment through that narrow lens misses the larger challenge.
The bigger mistake would be to judge him by what many political systems now fetishise: the first 100 days.
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