The Presidency on Wednesday, September 25, confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will soon carry out a cabinet reshuffle.
It stated that the exercise will be evidence-based as President Tinubu will be aided in his decision by public opinions that have been empirically extracted.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga who revealed this to journalists at the State House however, explained that the exercise has no timeline yet.
He said Tinubu also instructed his ministers to actively promote the accomplishments of his administration.
He said some of the Ministers have been media shy, television shy, radio shy, and he wants them to overcome all that and go out there and speak about what they have been doing.
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President Tinubu appointed his ministers in August 2023.
In June 2024, the trio of Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister for Interior; Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace and David Umahi, Minister of Works, jointly won Ireland based newspaper, The Street Journal ‘Super Minister’ award in President Bola Tinubu’s first year in office.
The trio emerged winners after collectively winning the majority votes in an online poll organised by the newspaper.
In the poll, Tunji-Ojo garnered over 80,000 votes, while Keyamo and Umahi both garnered over 70,000 votes.
In another development, the three ministers were announced as recipients of the 2024 Security Excellence Awards of the Institute of Security and Strategic Studies (ISSS).
The registrar of the institute, Dr Sunday Idakwoji said the awards celebrates their outstanding achievements in the field of security and strategic development across Nigeria.