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May 29: Tinubu to review ministers’ scorecards
President may get ministers’ new assessment report this week, low-performing ministries under pressure
With President Bola Tinubu’s second anniversary in office barely a week away, the Central Results Delivery and Coordination Unit is racing to present him a fresh set of ministerial scorecards, multiple presidency sources told The PUNCH on Tuesday.
The scorecards will focus on the performance of the various ministries for the first quarter of 2025 as Tinubu’s administration enters its mid-term on May 29.
The confidential assessment, which covers the first quarter of 2025, is expected “any time from now,” one aide said, adding that under-performing ministries are already feeling the heat of renewed scrutiny.
The CDCU, an agency under the Presidency responsible for assessing ministers’ performance quarterly, is currently verifying performance reports of the various government ministries and assigning them scores, the official added.
Sources familiar with the exercise said each ministry uploaded evidence of projects and policy milestones to a secure CDCU portal last month.
Since then, a verification team led by the Unit’s head, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has been poring over the submissions and assigning scores against the performance bonds ministers signed at the October 2023 cabinet retreat.
The officials, who chose to speak on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk about the matter, disclosed that Bala-Usman is working to transmit the reports to the President’s desk as soon as possible.
Asked about the assessment of some prominent cabinet members, an insider described the performance of many ministers as average, noting that only a few of them scored above average.
“The one minister who has done fairly well is the minister of works and a few others. When you look at the assessment of several others, they performed poorly in several critical metrics,” the official stated.
Even though the President is not expected to take any immediate action on the performance of any minister or ministry, the report is expected to provide Tinubu with the most up-to-date information on the performances of his cabinet members.
The information, sources said, will also help the President to engage some of his cabinet members or ministers on areas of improvement when necessary.
A top Presidency source close to the development said, “Officials of the various ministries have uploaded the reports of their activities and projects on the portal provided by the CDCU. These are based on deliverables that the ministries themselves have set.
“Officials of CDCU have done their detailed verifications and assessments of the uploaded projects. Scores have been assigned based on their findings. The final report for all the ministries is meant for the President.”
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