Friday, September 27, 2024 -A former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu has warned President Bola Tinubu that most people in his cabinet cannot be trusted.
According to him, Tinubu should not trust some of his righthand
men in recommending persons for ministerial offices, especially ahead of his
planned cabinet reshuffle.
Shittu was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today
programme on Thursday.
According to him, some members of the President’s kitchen cabinet
who should be on the lookout for technocrats to be appointed ministers have
vested interests and would only recommend their persons.
“You cannot trust anybody, even if you are
talking of kitchen cabinet,” Shittu said, adding that some of the current
members of the President’s cabinet have underperformed.
The ex-minister said, “This will be the first time he
(Tinubu) would be recruiting people from all parts of the country most of whom
he may never have met in life. But he may just be riding on the recommendation,
perhaps, of interested power blocs within the party who would give information
and sell their candidate for one reason or the other.
“Mr President has an opportunity to decide what he wants. If you are not
there and if he does not tell you exactly what he wants, it would be very
difficult but I think one failing in our system in this country is that when
people are appointed, or about to be appointed, we don’t have a kind of
orientation exercise which perhaps will take a week or two weeks to school
those to be given jobs to understand the priorities of their employer.”
Tinubu, ex-Lagos governor, appointed 48 ministers in August 2023,
three months after his inauguration. The Senate immediately screened and
confirmed the ministers. One of the ministers, Betta Edu, was suspended in
January while another, Simon Lalong, moved to the Senate.
There have been growing calls for the President to reshuffle his
cabinet as many Nigerians are not impressed by the performance of many of the
ministers, especially in the face of unprecedented inflation, excruciating
economic situation and rising insecurity.
This week, presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said the President
would reshuffle his cabinet but didn’t give a time to the reorganisation.
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