Buhari to Sack Finance Minister, Education Minister, Lai Mohamed in Cabinet Reshuffle
Category: Nigerian National News
President Muhammadu Buhari is poised to effect some changes in the
federal cabinet in the next couple of weeks. The president is said to be
under intense pressure from some ‘powerful’ forces, including his
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to “undertake a cleansing of
the Federal Executive Council (FEC),”
As part of the impending changes, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi
Adeosun and her foreign affairs counterpart, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, may
be moved to other ministries while Lai Mohammed will likely be replaced
as Information minister
Also, the tripod of the Works, Housing and Power Ministry under
former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, may be split into
three. Besides, the Transportation Ministry under Mr. Rotimi Amaechi
might also be split into Transport and Aviation Ministries.
Senator Hadi Sirika may fully man the Aviation Ministry if it is
eventually severed from transportation. For Fashola, whose volume of
work is considered ‘unwieldy,’ he has already engaged the man who served
as his Works Commissioner in Lagos State, Toyin Hamzat, as his Special
Adviser on Works, while equally appointing Faud Oki as Adviser on
Housing and Urban Development.
Oki served Fashola’s government in Lagos. Specifically, a source
privy to the move hinted that the Finance Minister is seen as being
‘overwhelmed’ by her position and may give way for someone from the
South- East considered more ‘grounded’ in economic and fiscal matters.
But it could not be confirmed if the plan to move the Finance
Minister to another ministry has anything to do with the cold war
between her and the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service,
Col. Hameed Ali (rtd). Contrary to established practice where the CG of
Customs reported to the Finance Minister, the former military
administrator of Kaduna State reports directly to the Presidency.
The Finance Minister has had it rough with about three ministers
whose suggestions on the possible solutions to stem the nose-diving
economy, especially the weak naira, have been interpreted as undermining
her job. She was also said to have had an altercation with Transport
Minister, Amaechi, while on a presidential delegation to China.
Adeosun, the immediate past Finance Commissioner in Ogun State, who
rode on the back of Governor Ibikunle Amosun to get the ministerial
position, is not alone in this category. Onyeama, who mans the Foreign
Affairs Ministry, is likely to be affected in the cabinet change.
Already, the president recently appointed a former member of the
House of Representatives, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, as his Senior Special
Assistant on Foreign Affairs. “Truly, both finance and foreign affairs
ministers are having issues. The expected changes may affect them,” a
minister told New Telegraph.
The education minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has also come under heavy
criticism that he lacks the requisite knowledge and experience to
supervise the ministry compared to a renowned educationist and former
vice chancellor, Prof. Anthony Anwuka, who is junior minister in the
ministry. Adamu is a journalist by profession.
Though it could not be independently confirmed if some ministers will
be dropped, feelers are strong that the number of ministers of state
might be reduced in the event that the president bows to the pressure
currently on him as some of them are likely to man the split ministries
under the envisaged regime.
On the delegation to the president, according to the source, were two
former governors, now senators, a serving northern governor and two
traditional rulers. The source said: “We cannot pretend that all is
well, especially when there are brazen acts that can bring disrepute to
the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“From what we have discovered, the need for the president to
reorganise his cabinet is becoming increasingly necessary by the day,
particularly when there are signs that some incompetent persons have
found their ways to the cabinet.
“This is not to disparage or denigrate persons, but the truth need to
be told this time that there are some round pegs in square holes and
the need to arrest or stem this tide is now because, from all
indications, if nothing is done now, more issues that will ridicule the
president and government are likely to emerge in the next few months.
“For God’s sake, what is a journalist doing as education minister and
supervising a professor of education? Is that thinkable at all? And you
think people should not talk to the president? “So, the need to
urgently do something came up and a few concerned persons had to
approach the president to sound him out that something urgent must be
done as far as his cabinet is concerned, those found to be incompetent
must pave the way for those who can make things happen.
“In fairness to the last administration, aside the plundering of the
nation’s finances, it had one of the best economic management team with
sound ministers of finance at different times. “We are in an era that
only ideas can make things work and, from our assessment of some of the
ministers, they are just filling slots without inputs from them and we
think such era is gone.
“It is our duty to let him know and it is his responsibility to do
the needful because the whole world is watching us as a nation as we are
battling with our economy and the security challenges.” It was learnt
that Adamu may be moved to man the Information Ministry while Lai
Mohammed moves to a new ministry.
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