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| [00:00.00] | The acting president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan |
| [00:02.91] | has dissolved the government. |
| [00:04.09] | The announcement comes a month |
| [00:05.71] | after he assumed executive powers |
| [00:07.70] | because of the long illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua. |
| [00:10.37] | Peter Greste reports from Abuja. |
| [00:12.42] | There has been talk of a cabinet reshuffle |
| [00:14.73] | for weeks now, |
| [00:15.72] | ever since the national assembly moved Goodluck Jonathan |
| [00:18.52] | from vice president to acting president two months ago. |
| [00:21.13] | But few people expected the wholesale dissolution |
| [00:24.18] | that came on Wednesday. |
| [00:25.24] | He made no public statement, |
| [00:27.04] | but the outgoing Information Minister Dora Akunyili |
| [00:29.97] | said parliament's secretaries would take charge of the ministries |
| [00:32.89] | until a cabinet is appointed. |
| [00:34.69] | Not all ministers will lose their jobs, |
| [00:37.00] | some will be reappointed, |
| [00:38.74] | but this kind of sweeping change makes it clear |
| [00:40.98] | the acting president is trying to assert his control |
| [00:43.84] | over the cabinet made up largely of President Yar'Adua's appointees. |
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