Tinubu will be quick to fire non-performing Ministers

Unlike his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, the presidency has revealed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be quick to sack any of the inaugurated ministers and other appointees who fail to perform to expectations.

Buhari’s administration was marked by ministers serving out their term, or willingly resigning. In the case of Kemi Adeosun, she resigned over mounting pressure about her alleged forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate. The others quit because of their political ambitions in the 2023 elections.

But the Senior Adviser to President Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said during a ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily interview on Monday that the president would not shy away from sacking any minister whose performance is below par.

Ngelale said his principal was not someone who was afraid to sanction or sack anybody to ensure that he got the desired results.

He said, “The President has set the benchmarks. The question now is about enforcement, and the President has shown, as he did during his time in Lagos State as governor, that he is not someone who is afraid to fire anybody.

“He is not somebody that is afraid to levy quick sanctions to ensure that they get the results that he wants ’cause, ultimately, if this administration fails, they will not say a minister failed, or a set of ministers failed. They will say President Bola Tinubu failed, and he will not accept failure.”

Ngelale said Tinubu spent several months since his victory at the February 25 presidential election setting clear goals for each ministry and a series of reform committees across all sectors.

“President Tinubu basically looked at exactly what His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari has achieved and said, ‘This is what we want to do to build on all these achievements’.

“We’re going to effectively implement a plan within a certain amount of time based on time-based benchmarks that when a minister has come in, we would be able to measure their performance against.

“Every minister coming in absolutely knows what they have to achieve within the time frame that’s been given to them by the President, and that’s something in the history of Nigerian governance we’ve never seen before.”