Lanre Issa-Onilu, a former national director of press for the All Progressives Congress (APC), has outlined the rationale for President Bola Tinubu’s apparent holdup in inaugurating and swearing in new ministers.
He claims that the President is intentionally delaying the inauguration of his Ministers because he is revamping several departments and finalising job descriptions.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, President Tinubu sent a list of 48 nominations for ministerial positions to the Senate for review and confirmation, however on August 7, the senators only approved 45 of the candidates.
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Due to a lack of security clearance, the other three candidates, Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna, Stella Okotete (Delta), and Danladi Abubakar (Taraba), could not be officially announced.
The Senate then gave the President access to the confirmed list.
The President has failed to officially appoint the cleared Ministers, nevertheless, since that time.
Issa-Onilu said there is nothing to worry about because of the delay because of the ongoing restructuring and the necessity to create a firm foundation during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday.
He continued by saying that the titles of some ministries would change, and Nigerians would hear names they weren’t familiar with.
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In his words, “What we should ask is we need to ensure that we lay a solid foundation even for the cabinet to come in and take off.
“This is a new government and Asiwaju is a technocrat and if you bring someone to work with you, you must have a job description for the person.
“On Monday, they are going to be inaugurated. We have ministries, the president may have his ideas on how the ministries should work.
“He may want to tinker with the existing structure and he needs to prepare the bed before asking someone to come and lay on it.
“That is the only way to get things going.
“You don’t want to bring a minister in and say hold on you need to restructure the base. There is restructuring going on.
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“You are going to hear ministries in terms of nomenclature you are not familiar with. And those are deliberate to ensure that you provide the necessary will to get things done fast enough.
“The bottom line is that there will be this exercise on Monday.”
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