President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari is contemplating rejigging his cabinet
in a bid to bolster his chances of succeeding at the 2019 presidential
polls, SaharaReporters has been told.
It is not exactly clear how soon the President would ring the
changes, but a source in the presidency told SaharaReporters that it
could happen at Friday’s emergency meeting of the Federal Executive
Council (FEC), or it could be delayed for a few weeks.
The emergency FEC meeting was primarily convened for approval for
the 2019 Appropriation Bill, with the government hoping to present the
budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly next week.
But the source told SaharaReporters that a cabinet reshuffle at a
time like this, with elections approaching, should be no surprise.
“The President is considering dropping ministers with political
baggage, and those contesting, and is also hoping to strengthen his
campaign spread,” he said.
Since becoming President in May 2015, Buhari hasn’t altered his
cabinet, the members of which he waited six months before announcing.
Aisha Alhassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, is the most recent
Minister to reluctantly bow out of office. She quit in acrimonious
circumstances as Minister of Women Affairs in late September, after she
was disqualified from contesting the Taraba State governorship election
on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
That was two weeks after Kemi Adeosun, then the Minister of
Finance, belatedly resigned following months of sustained public
pressure after it was exposed that she did not undergo the mandatory
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Kayode Fayemi, then Minister of Solid Minerals Development, left in
May to contest the Ekiti State governorship election, which he won — he
was sworn in in October — while Amina Mohammed resigned as Minister of
Environment in February 2017 after she was appointed United Nations
Deputy Secretary General.
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