Ahead of the planned nationwide protest tagged #EndbadgovernanceinNigeria, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal has advised President Bola Tinubu to carry out an urgent cabinet reshuffle by sacking non-performing ministers in his cabinet.

Speaking in a no-holds-barred interview with TheScrutinyNG on Wednesday, Lawal said sacking some of the ministers who are not performing will send a signal to angry Nigerians that the president means well and is ready for business.

According to him, while it is on record that President Tinubu has the highest number of ministers in Nigeria’s history, many of the ministers have no reason to be in the cabinet due to their abysmal performance.

He listed former Osun state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, who is the Minister Of Marine and Blue Economy; Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari; Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment and Hannatu Musawa, Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy as some of the ministers that should be shown the way out of the cabinet.

“Let me tell you some of the things that can reduce tension in the country. Let Bola (Tinubu) do a cabinet reshuffle tomorrow and see if Nigerians will not be happy with him. Let him drop some of these ministers that nobody has heard anything about them since they were appointed. If he can do that, it will send a signal to Nigerians that he is ready for business and he is a listening president”.

“Many of the ministers are just useless. What is the minister of Agric doing since he was appointed? Nobody has heard anything about him or his plans to improve agriculture in Nigeria and make food available for hungry masses. The whole agriculture system has collapsed. What is he doing about fertiliser subsidy, tractors, irrigation and Agric inputs. What the northerners want is agriculture because that is their major source of livelihood”.

“Today, fertiliser is N47,000 in the market. During Buhari’s era, it was N7,000. That alone has discouraged a lot of farmers. What is the minister doing about that?”

“What is the Minister of Art and Culture, Hannatu Musawa doing in the cabinet?”

“The president’s brother, Gboyega Oyetola, what has he done in the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy? He is sitting on one of the massive fund generators of the government and he is not doing anything or telling Nigerians about what is happening in the ministry”.

“Why is he not talking to Nigerians about the achievements of the ministry? That is what governance is all about. I will fire him if I am the president. People should know what is going on in all these ministries. That is when Nigerians can be convinced that the government is working. Everybody is just sitting there and stealing. They don’t steal billions of naira again, it is trillions”.
https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/07/24/endbadgovernance-protest-sack-non-performing-ministers-now-ex-sgf-babachir-counsels-tinubu/

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Supporters of the Pandora thief are always talking nonsense. Sack this, sack that, and when he used 200 million to cut grass, he couldn't resigned honourably until Buhari removed him.

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They said Jagaban is a master at this game called politics. As commander in chief the failure of your lieutenants is your failure.
1 year in office and you can't show a tiny impactful policy or even a minor progress.
How you influenced your vote is not my problem. My problem is how your supporters sleep and wake in hunger and still "give you time" to actualize your plans. LOL.....
Hunger was the manifesto, they didn't see it.

Clueless set of people,,many of the ministers are mere occupying space without having any thing upstairs.Infact a cabinet resurfle might make a difference.Nigerians taxes are used to feed them and their families without doing next to nothing than to steal us dry

kingharzy:
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They said Jagaban is a master at this game called politics. As commander in chief the failure of your lieutenants is your failure.
1 year in office and you can't show a tiny impactful policy or even a minor progress.
How you influenced your vote is not my problem. My problem is how your supporters sleep and wake in hunger and still "give you time" to actualize your plans. LOL.....
Hunger was the manifesto, they didn't see it.

Sorry for you in your faint imagination, mixed up in a misconstrued outlook, which has lead you to false expectations.

Your country Nigeria will land a man on the moon by 2031 & you blindly believed the rhetoric, then you come & start wailing blame others?

Same Bachir Lawal that Buhari kicked out for corruption.

Na only the strong survive for this game. Tinubu knows the right moves to make; he won't let distractions derail his vision for progress.

JAMO84:
Supporters of the Pandora thief are always talking nonsense. Sack this, sack that, and when he used 200 million to cut grass, he couldn't resigned honourably until Buhari removed him.

N544 million actually.

He is now a hero of the Obidient movement.

blacknp:
Sorry for you in your faint imagination, mixed up in a misconstrued outlook, which has lead you to false expectations.

Your country Nigeria will land a man on the moon by 2031 & you blindly believed the rhetoric, then you come & start wailing blame others?

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Read, reread and read again. Seems you fell from the moon. What's it like in 2031??

Thief dey vex for another thief,,


They're all thieves!!



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Babachir Lawal, no vex but this one na pure noise.

Tinubu knows wetin e dey do. He go make the right decisions when the time come. We don’t need armchair critics, let the man run the show. Non-performing ministers go find their level soon.

ALLOW them to DEVELOP ooooo

Babachir Lawal should focus on his own past before calling for sacking. Tinubu knows what he's doing; he won't be rushed by noise. A strategic leader takes time to assess the right moves. Let's give him the space to build the right team. Patience is key!

Na that minister of Agriculture wey no get anything to do there. But I think the president gave most of them those appointments as a political settlement for being loyal or committed to him or for whatever is between them.

chopnaira:

N544 million actually.

He is now a hero of the Obidient movement.

Sense is far from some of you. What concerns obidients with Lawal's opinion?

Oyetola has been doing his best, but change is the only constant in governance. Tinubu knows how to assemble a winning team, so let’s trust his judgment on this one.

Daniel Bwala is the next minister

Philipponzaghi:
Oyetola has been doing his best, but change is the only constant in governance. Tinubu knows how to assemble a winning team, so let’s trust his judgment on this one.

Tinubu should bring back the old fuel price and see d protest die down

Grasshopper should STFU

What's his own business with the performance of the ministers? He said he can never have anything to do with them, so he should criticize and not advise them.

blacknp:
Sorry for you in your faint imagination, mixed up in a misconstrued outlook, which has lead you to false expectations.

Your country Nigeria will land a man on the moon by 2031 & you blindly believed the rhetoric, then you come & start wailing blame others?

Land a man on the moon using another country’s spacecraft and technology?

The spacecraft won’t even takeoff from our own soil. Is that what you tag achievement? Tell me if any country that did such.

Babachir should focus on his own performance instead of calling for sackings. Tinubu knows what he's doing, and he will make the right decisions for Nigeria.