Ahead of the cabinet reshuffle, former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to trust some of his righthand men in advising persons for ministerial offices.
Shittu who made this plea on Thursday stressed that some members of the President’s kitchen cabinet who should be on the lookout for technocrats to be appointed ministers have vested interests and would only suggest their persons.
He said, “You cannot trust anybody, even if you are talking of kitchen cabinet,” Shittu said, adding that some of the current members of the President’s cabinet have underperformed.
This will be the first time he (Tinubu) would be recruiting people from all parts of the country most of whom he may never have met in life. But he may just be riding on the recommendation, perhaps, of interested power blocs within the party who would give information and sell their candidate for one reason or the other.
“Mr President has an opportunity to decide what he wants. If you are not there and if he does not tell you exactly what he wants, it would be very difficult but I think one failing in our system in this country is that when people are appointed, or about to be appointed.
“We don’t have a kind of orientation exercise which perhaps will take a week or two weeks to school those to be given jobs to understand the priorities of their employer.”