The Presidency announced that the upcoming cabinet reshuffle will be grounded in empirical evidence derived from performance reports received by the President over the past months.
This information was shared by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, and Mr. O’Tega Ogra, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital/New Media, during a joint briefing at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Onanuga noted that while there is no specific timeline for the reshuffle, the President has “expressed his desire” to carry it out. He stated, “Let me tell you, I don’t have any timeline. The President has expressed his desire to reshuffle his cabinet, and he will do it. I don’t know whether he’s going to do it before October 1, but he will surely do it.”
Ogra emphasized that the decision will not be arbitrary, highlighting that it will rely on performance reports presented by Hadiza Bala-Usman, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination and head of the Central Delivery Coordination Unit. He said, “The President’s decision to reshuffle his cabinet is also based on empirical evidence… He had said when he was speaking at the retreat for the ministers that they were going to have periodic reviews, and the decisions from these reviews will inform that final decision.”
The Tinubu administration is facing mounting pressure from within the All Progressives Congress and external sources to replace underperforming ministers in the cabinet.