Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar’Adua, who took power in June 2007, following controversial elections, is to transform the country into one of the world’s 20 largest economies by 2020. Yar’Adua and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are struggling to stamp their authority on an unwieldy and restive country of 140 million people, and the government views rapid growth as a means to achieving that aim.
俄罗斯不是唯一一个将石油作为改变其全球地位的手段的国家。现今，在颇具争议的大选后于2007年6月掌权的Umar Yar’Adua总统誓愿在2020年将让尼日利亚跻身全球前20大经济体的行列。Yar’Adua和他的人民民主党(PDP)正努力地在这个拥有1.4亿人口的庞大而难以管理的国家树立威信。政府将快速的经济增长视为实现该目标的途径。