A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Buba Galadima has downplayed President Bola Tinubu’s plans to reshuffle the cabinet.
The presidency last week said Tinubu would soon reshuffle the cabinet. However, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga failed to give a timeline.
“I don’t have any timeline. The President has expressed his desire to reshuffle his cabinet and will do it. I don’t know whether he wants to do it before October 1, but he will surely do it,” he told State House Correspondent in Abuja.
But Galadima has downplayed the move, arguing that Nigerians have more pressing issues.
“That [planned cabinet reshuffle] has nothing to do with me or any Nigerian. What is of importance to all of us is bringing down the harsh conditions of living and the buck stops only on the table of one man,” the NNPP chieftain said on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s current affairs show Politics Today. “That is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. No amount of reshuffling can make a difference. As far as that team is only ‘job for the boys,’ nothing will come out of it.”
There have been claims of underperformance by some ministers with critics saying the development is behind Tinubu’s plan to rejig the cabinet.
That argument, however, does not hold water with Galadima who said Tinubu should be held responsible for his ministers’ performances.
He said, Tinubu, like “Anybody that calls himself president or governor” is responsible for their cabinet’s performance.
The former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) accused Tinubu’s appointees of working for their “pockets”.
“He should be told that some of his appointees are more interested in their pockets than service delivery,” Galadima said.
According to him, while he expected much from Tinubu upon his assumption of office, the Nigerian president has not done better.
“I expected him to do better than this; and to hit the ground running,” the NNPP stalwart said and called on Tinubu to seek a solution to the country’s foreign exchange crisis which has seen the naira performing abysmally.
