BREAKING NEWS: JONATHAN SACKS EDUCATION MINISTER, 8
OTHERS AMID PDP SPLITS
President Goodluck Jonathan has reshuffled his cabinet, dropping
nine ministers.
The
ministers affected are Ruqayat Rufai (Education); Zainab Kuchi (Power,
[state]); Buka Tijani (Agriculture [state]), Shamsudeen Usman (National
Planning; Ita Okon (Science and Technology); Olugbenga Ashiru (Foreign
Affairs); Ama Pepple (Lands) and Hadiza Mailafia (Environment).
But while the expectation mounted,
Mr. Jonathan repeatedly dispelled speculation that he had plans to fire
non-performing ministers.
Last
August, he unveiled a rating procedure known as Performance Contract
Agreement for ministers but said he would not use the result of the
assessment in considering who to fire.
Mr.
Jonathan said the assessment would only appraise his administration’s
performance and delivery of targets to Nigerians.
“I
read all kinds of thing in the media, that the president wants to assess the
ministers so that he would know who would go and who would stay. That is not
the purpose of this.
According
to the president, the exercise was to ensure enhanced performance, transparency
and accountability in governance, adding that it was not a witch-hunting
exercise.
“I
want to assure every one of you who has taken part in the exercise that this is
not a witch-hunt targeted at anybody,” the president said in his remarks after
the signing ceremony.
Nine
of those who signed that contract have now been sacked, although it is not
clear what criteria the President adopted in deciding those he fired.
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