There are strong indications that the long-awaited cabinet reshuffle may be announced this week.
The Guardian gathered that President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, held a closed-door meeting with his Special Adviser on Policy Coordination and Head of the Central Delivery Coordination Unit, Hadiza Bala-Usman.
The policy coordination office was saddled with the responsibility of coming up with the criteria to determine who to go and those to be retained.
Before his two-week vacation, Tinubu had announced a cabinet reshuffle in the offing last month.
He was expected to announce it in the Independence Day broadcast on October 1. A day after, the President embarked on a working leave abroad.
With his return at the weekend, indications emerged, yesterday, that some of the ministers were in a panic mode over the looming reshuffle.
Sources close to the Presidency had claimed that before the President travelled to the United Kingdom for the vacation, a list containing the performances of the ministers had been compiled by Bala-Usman. One of the sources said the task of compiling the performances of ministers rested on her and that she had diligently done her work.
The panic was heightened with the development of yesterday’s marathon meeting between the President and Bala-Usman in his office in Aso Rock.
Also sighted at the Villa with the President was the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacchaeus Adedeji, who doubles as Special Adviser to the President on Revenue; and the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi.
A presidential source said, “It is expected that before the end of the week, the President will announce a cabinet reshuffle.
“There is going to be a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, which may be a valedictory meeting for some of the ministers, except if the President decides to change his mind and delay the announcement.”(Guardian)
