Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Current ministers who excelled during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term will be considered for automatic appointment into his cabinet during his second term in order to ensure continuity, Daily Independent has gathered.

Aside performance as ministers, a presidency source told Daily Independent that cabinet members who contributed immensely to the victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), especially President Buhari’s reelection, will be considered.

He particularly singled out Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing; Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and Udoma Udo Udoma, Minister of Budget and National Planning, as ministers who are being considered to be retained in the next administration.

He said aside his role as a super minister who supervised three key portfolios, Fashola also served as Director of Election Planning and Monitoring for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, a task he performed creditably well to the admiration of the president.

On his part, Lai Mohammed received a lot of accolades from the party leadership and President Buhari for his role in his home state of Kwara for leading the assault against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which not only recorded hundred percent victory for the APC but also ended Senate President Bukola Saraki’s dominance of the state.

Speaking further, he said as Minister of Budget, Udoma played a key role in stabilising the administration throughout the period of recession and also when the price of crude oil, Nigeria’s major source of income, was drastically reduced.

“The APC national leadership is very much involved in the selection process. The National Working Committee of the party led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman, is working hand-in-hand with Mr. President and other key leaders such as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to have a fantastic cabinet that will help the president in his Next Level agenda.

“The president and the party are trying to avoid some mistakes of 2015. If you can recall, even the First Lady said President Buhari doesn’t know many of the cabinet members while others who sacrificed a lot for his victory were not rewarded.

“Yes, some ministers will be retained while some fresh bloods will also be injected. Those who performed below expectations and those whose utterances and actions are inimical to the progress of the party will have no place in the new administration”, the source said.

He, however, added that unlike in 2015, governors elected on the party’s platform will not be allowed to hijack the process where they will send names of their loyalists to the president, who will eventually not make any impact after their appointments.

Speaking with Daily Independent, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), said he strongly believes that ministers who performed creditably well will be retained by President Buhari.

According to him, once you have appointees who performed very well, there will be no need to replace them in order to sustain the tempo and ensure continuity in governance.

He added that it is only incompetent ones that can be replaced.

“I strongly believe that the outstanding ministers who performed very well are likely to be retained. There will be no reason not to retain them at all. You don’t just change for the sake of changing but for the sake of improvement or replacing incompetent ones.

“If there are ministers who really performed excellently in the president’s cabinet in his first term, then there will be no need to replace them”.
https://www.independent.ng/buhari-may-retain-udoma-lai-mohammed-fashola/

Unproductive logs. Shioor

As if he(buhari) we suprise nigerians on his appointment, he we retain 60% of his former minister

I know Lai must be rewarded for humbling Saraki in Kwara

Top of the list must be Lai Mohammed for destroying Saraki in Kwara state.

Another set of dead woods

Heard Buhari is very pleased with that singular deed

LacunaJacuna:
Top of the list must be Lai Mohammed for destroying Saraki in Kwara state.

Atiku should write a letter of apology then maybe buhari will appoint him minister of ibo affairs and I can bet he will serve buhari because Atiku is a political prostitute, no principle, jumping from A to B then to C and again to D.

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There is no challengig Fashola, the super minister

Always back to the vomit.

Hmmmm

Lai Mohammed ensured that retirement of Saraki. That's no mean feat. Give the man a bottle of Orijin

We shall get to the promised land.....


From 10days Vakky to ??

I won't blame PMB, I blame all of you that gave him mandate to misbehave free of charge with impunity.

Bunch of failures

I was sure to seeing lie mohammed in the list, so good with his lies.

hmmm, the more things change the more they remain the same..

hisexcellency34:
Heard Buhari is very pleased with that singular deed

A singular deeds that does not add any value to nigeria


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aolawale025:
Another set of dead woods

Lai Muhammad, Saraki political UNDERTAKER, dead wood ?
How serious are you?

Is that why Ameachi has been moving up and down with train here, train there before he gets sacked and loose political relevance finally.

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Rauf Aregbesola may make the cabinet.

My own opinion.

whoo

Useless apc
What good can come from this dumb, ancient n senseless sets of people?imagine saying fashola , the worst performing minister in the history of the world, did well . Chai babaGod pls save this country through the Supreme Court.

Amaechi has sacrificed a lot for APC so he should be rewarded accordingly

Where is Mr president?

I no hear or see Ameachi name for that list o! Wetin dey happen?