Nigerian Presidency orders fresh appraisal of ministers, aides

Goodluck Jonathan
the Nigerian President

Nigerian Presidency orders fresh appraisal of ministers, aides

As part of the desire to ensure service delivery at the federal level, the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is said to have ordered a review of the performance of his ministers in the first six months of their tenure.

Sources close to the administration said on Wednesday that President Goodluck Jonathan might have given the go-ahead for a thorough analysis of the performance of his ministers, especially in the first six months of his administration.

Sources confirmed that there was an understanding by the presidency that the political aides, as well as the ministers are on six-month probation when they were appointed starting from June last year.

Transformation agenda

According to the source, while the Nigerian government is undertaking a review of all agencies of government to isolate areas of overlap as part of the plan to rationalise ministries and parastatals, the government has also decided to rate the performance of his ministers to ensure that the transformation agenda is on course.

“The president has promised Nigerians transformation in four years. He has said that within the term of office granted him by the electorate, he will transform the country.  He believes that the ministers have an onerous task to deliver on the promises and ensure that Nigerians see changes in the process of government,” a source stated.

Another source confirmed that at the end of the ongoing assessment of the ministers, the president may decide to reassign some of his appointees while some might be dropped.
It was gathered that though the president was wary of constant huge reshuffle of ministers, he had taken the decision that whoever was found to be sleeping in the ministries should be shown the way out.

Sources also confirmed that the president was not bothered about removing anyone if it was confirmed that his administration was suffering as a result of an appointee’s incompetence or inactions.

In another development, President Jonathan is set to export his administration’s transformation agenda to the forthcoming World Economic Summit meeting scheduled for Davos, between January 27 and 28.

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