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Gbeminiyi Ogunleye
4 days ago
Overview
- Ministers anticipate cabinet reshuffle as Tinubu fills vacancies.
There are indications that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu might make a slight reallocation of portfolios in the federal cabinet following the inauguration of two ministers to fill the vacant positions caused by the resignation of two former occupants.
Sources within the Presidency hinted that, with the Federal Cabinet now comprising a full complement of 48 ministers and distractions arising from the United States President Donald Trump’s warning about human rights abuses and slow action against insecurity, the President may undertake another minor rearrangement of portfolios among the Ministers.
On October 23, 2024, the President carried out a major cabinet reshuffle, during which he dismissed five Ministers and appointed seven new ones, while reassigning 10 others to new Ministries. The Finance, Defence, National Planning, and the two Ministers of State for Petroleum retained their posts.
Signs that the cabinet reshuffle was imminent emerged last Wednesday after the President inaugurated two Ministers from Plateau and Enugu States without assigning them portfolios.
While Dr Bernard Mohammed Doro, from Plateau State, was coming as a replacement for Prof. Nenatwe Yilwatda, the immediate past Humanitarian Affairs Minister, who was elected as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh SAN was brought in from Enugu State to take the place of Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, who resigned as Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation after an alleged certificate scandal.
