There are strong signs that President Bola Tinubu has finished compiling the list of people and positions for his reorganized cabinet.
According to many Presidency insiders who spoke with Saturday Viztadaily News, Tinubu had finalized the list of ministers to keep and those to fire and was planning to make the announcement on Thursday night, the day after he landed in the UK on his two-week yearly holiday.
President Tinubu has been under growing pressure from both inside and beyond his party, the All Progressives Congress, to fire underperforming ministers since the severe economic hardship and the countrywide rallies in August of last year
The president would occasionally issue advisories for poor performance, but his cabinet stayed largely without alteration, with the ‘exception of Dr. Betta Edu’s suspension as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation’ in January 2024.
In November of last year, Tinubu said during a three-day retreat for cabinet members and presidential aides that a Central Delivery Coordination Unit,
led by his Special Advisor on Policy Coordination, ”Hadiza Bala-Usman,’ would assess ministers and other high-ranking government officials’ performance.
According to Tinubu, the decisions about who would quit or stay in the cabinet would be made by these regular performance reports, ‘You have nothing to worry if you are performing.
We’ll go over it again if you miss the goal. You’re out of here if there’s no show. The President informed the gathering that “no one is an island and the buck stops on my desk.’
Sunday Viztadaily News revealed that, one year after Tinubu swore in his cabinet in August, There was going to be a shuffling. Speaking with our correspondent, officials were unable to provide a specific date.
It was understood, however, that the restructuring would go beyond portfolio conversions.
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs would be one of the ministries and portfolios that will be eliminated, while other ministries would be divided and combined.
Since they were not authorized to discuss the issue, officials talked on Friday under the condition of anonymity.
They stated that although Tinubu was supposed to reveal the list on Thursday, he chose to ‘sleep on it’ for a short while, We only await the all-clear.
My knowledge is limited to the fact that we are awaiting his submission of the updated roster of individuals he wishes to assign and remove. ‘We have been anticipating them since Thursday.
As of right now, I have no idea about any specifics, including names. Before releasing the list, the President stated, ‘As far as I know, he wants to sleep over it again.’
One insider speculated that he might still decide to reconsider some names.
It astonished them that the list was not released yesterday (Thursday),’ stated a another insider, who wished to remain anonymous. It’s already almost finalized.’
Likewise, an additional official refuted tidings that delegates were jam-packed into the President’s home in the United Kingdom, ‘That is untrue.
It is inevitable that there will be conjectures everywhere. Is it known where he is located? Can they reach him, even if they know where he is?
Some claim that lobbyists are only in town for a visit, him from the left, right, and center. However, he will probably get medical exams during this trip as well. No one can see him the way he is presently resting.
They will not permit individuals to have that kind of access to him. That much I can assure you of,’ the person stated. The Presidency declared on September 25, 2024, that Tinubu would shortly reorganize his cabinet.
It did specify, however, that the exercise would be predicated on performance information from reports the president had received from the Central Delivery Coordination Unit in recent months.
October 2 marked the start of Tinubu’s working leave in the UK, and it will finish on October 16.
