A former presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe has commended President Bola Tinubu’s decision to scrap some ‘superfluous ministries’ in his cabinet reshuffle.
Mr Okupe, former director general of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, gave the commendation in an interview in Lagos on Thursday, October 24, 2024.
He said: “President Tinubu has done the needful by his mid-term rejig of his cabinet.
“Scrapping superfluous ministries is in line with removing waste and making government compact and effective, this is commendable.
“For the first time, removal of ministers from the cabinet has not been arbitrary or sentimental, apart from an in-house key performance index report.
“KPMG is also said to be involved in critical performance assessment of the ministers,” Mr Okupe noted.
According to him, Nigerians now expect the president and his new cabinet to pull up their bootstraps and seriously and comprehensively address the nation’s numerous plaguing issues.
He expressed hope in the President’s Renewed Hope Agenda to reposition the country.
“As I have personally stated in the past, President Tinubu has the capacity and leadership qualities to take Nigeria out of the economic quagmire he met on assumption of office in May 2023,” Okupe said.
President Tinubu on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, sacked five ministers and appointed seven new ones.
He also restructured ministerial portfolios to reinvigorate his administration’s capacity to deliver on his promises to Nigerians.
Tinubu re-assigned 10 ministers to new ministerial portfolios.