President Bola Tinubu
There are indications that President Bola Tinubu may reshuffle his cabinet before Oct 1.
“The president has expressed his desire to reshuffle his cabinet and he will do it”.
“I don’t know whether he wants to do it before October 1, but he will surely do it.
“That is what I will say but he has not given us any timeline,” Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, told State House Correspondents on Wednesday.
According to Onanuga, Tinubu has achieved a lot in terms of policy initiatives but not much has been put in the public domain.
“The President has directed the Ministers to engage more with members of the public, especially on the achievements of the current administration.
“Many Nigerians believe the president isn’t doing much, while the government is actually making significant strides,” he said.
Corroborating Onanuga’s hint, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, O’tega Ogra, said the rejig of the cabinet was imminent.
According to him, the President’s decision will be based on performance reports presented by Hadiza Bala-Usman, his Special Adviser on Policy and Central Delivery Coordination.
He said: “The president’s decision to reshuffle his cabinet is also to be based on empirical evidence.
“You know, he had said when he was speaking at the retreat for the ministers that they were going to have periodic reviews and the decisions that are extracted from these reviews will be used to make that final decision.
“I know he has gotten a couple of reports, and as Onanuga said, when he is ready to do that, he will.”
The President had shortly after constituting his cabinet last year told the ministers that performances would determine who would leave or stay on.
“If you are performing, there is nothing to fear. If you miss the objective, we’ll review it.
“If there is no performance, you leave us. No one is an island and the buck stops on my desk,” he had stated.
