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Enioluwa Adeniyi
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Former House of Representatives Minority Leader, Dr. Wunmi Bewaji, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to dismiss additional ministers who are not meeting expectations.
This appeal comes after President Tinubu’s recent cabinet reshuffle, during which six ministers were relieved of their duties, seven new appointments were made, and the portfolios of 10 other ministers were swapped.
In an interview with Tribune, Bewaji described the reshuffle as long overdue and asserted that there are still several “dead woods” within the administration.
He emphasized the need for further decisive action to ensure that only competent individuals occupy key positions in the government.
He said, “A cabinet reshuffle was long overdue, but the cabinet reshuffle that we have witnessed, I want to believe is the beginning. It is not the end. This is because there are still a lot of dead woods in the administration that must be shown the way out.”
Asked to give an assessment of the current administration’s policies and their impact on the country, he said, “The government that came into office about one and a half years ago, I believe that the quality of the reforms that the president initiated cannot materialize overnight because we had a systemic failure as far as the finances of Nigeria is concerned.
“You have a situation whereby the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan squandered a lot of resources.
“During the Goodluck Jonathan era, we sold oil for as high as $140 per barrel and Nigeria was producing as high as 2.5 million barrels per day, but we squandered everything. The excess crude account was depleted; Nigeria’s foreign reserve was depleted, and then Buhari came. If Buhari had initiated these reforms, you know in his eight years, maybe we would not be in this kind of situation we have found ourselves.”
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