President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently mulling a cabinet reshuffle of his administration, according to Daniel Bwala, a former spokesman for the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku.
The former Atiku’s spokesman who has yet to join the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, promising to become a member soon as everything has now been put in place to achieve that, has been widely described by not a few Nigerians, as an unofficial spokesman of the Tinubu presidency.
Bwala’s statement, if anything to go by, may unsettle the ministers, some of who were appointed last year by the president.
Not a few Nigerians have slammed some ministers for non-performance, blaming them for the current state of the economy.
Some ministers, critics of the administration insist, got their position based on man-no-man, and the need to satisfy party’s loyalty after the election.
Speaking on the polity, Bwala disclosed that President Tinubu will reshuffle his cabinet within two weeks, saying that the president has received the assessment report on the performance of his ministers.
President Tinubu had earlier promised not to retain non-performing ministers in his government.
According to Bwala, “And Mr. President has repeatedly told whoever cared to listen that he would not run a cabinet that is not prone to reshufflement like Nigerians witnessed under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Only recently, the assessment of the current crop of Ministers was done. And in a couple of days or weeks from now, President Tinubu would unveil a new cabinet reshufflement.”
Speaking with the leaders of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, in May this year, in Aso Rock Presidential Vill President Tinubu affirmed his readiness to sack any appointees in his cabinet for non-performance.
“ I will relieve any of them of their duties anytime I feel that they are failing Nigerians,” the President said.
Earlier this week, President Tinubu unveiled a new ministry, the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development which he has yet to appoint a minister, making his Presidency the one with highest number of ministers since the country returned to democratic rule in 1999.
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