Last week, the presidency announced that Tinubu would soon carry out a cabinet reshuffle.
However, Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, did not provide a specific timeline for when the reshuffle would occur.
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“I don’t have any timeline. The President has expressed his desire to reshuffle his cabinet and will do it. I don’t know whether he wants to do it before October 1, but he will surely do it,” he told State House Correspondent in Abuja.
But Galadima has downplayed the move, arguing that Nigerians have more pressing issues.
“That [planned cabinet reshuffle] has nothing to do with me or any Nigerian. What is of importance to all of us is bringing down the harsh conditions of living and the buck stops only on the table of one man,” the NNPP chieftain said on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s current affairs show Politics Today. “That is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. No amount of reshuffling can make a difference. As far as that team is only ‘job for the boys,’ nothing will come out of it.”
There have been claims of underperformance by some ministers, with critics suggesting that this is the reason behind President Bola Tinubu’s plan to reshuffle the cabinet.
However, Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), dismissed this argument, stating that Tinubu himself should be held accountable for his ministers’ performances.
According to Galadima, “Anyone who calls himself president or governor” is ultimately responsible for the actions and effectiveness of their cabinet.
He further criticized Tinubu’s appointees, accusing them of working primarily for their “pockets.”
“He should be told that some of his appointees are more interested in their pockets than service delivery,” Galadima said.
Galadima stated that although he had high expectations for Tinubu when he assumed office, the Nigerian president has not lived up to those expectations or performed any better than anticipated.
“I expected him to do better than this; and to hit the ground running,” the NNPP stalwart said and called on Tinubu to seek a solution to the country’s foreign exchange crisis which has seen the naira performing abysmally.
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