President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will unveil a new cabinet ‘in a couple of days or weeks’, one of his confidants said yesterday, Friday, July 12, 2024.

Daniel Bwala, a lawyer and public affairs analyst, made the disclosure while responding to recent comments by Chief Whip of the Senate, Mohammed Ali Ndume.

In an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, Ndume had said the federal government’s inability to address security challenges and other issues is a major challenge, adding that some ministers are unable to meet with President Bola Tinubu to discuss the matter.

He had said: “The major problem with this government is that its doors are closed, to the extent that even some ministers cannot see the President, not to mention members of the National Assembly, who do not have the opportunity to meet with him and discuss the issues affecting their constituencies.”

Ndume later told journalists at the National Assembly that the president had lost touch with reality as some forces had caged him at Aso Rock.

Weighing in, Bwala in a piece titled, ‘Ali Ndume, the rant of an expert in grandstanding’, said Ndume was unfit to criticise Tinubu.

He asked the lawmaker what he had achieved for his people in over two decades that he has been representing them.

Bwala added that recently, the assessment of the current crop of Ministers was done and in a couple of weeks President Tinubu would unveil a new cabinet reshuffling

He said: “Senator Ndume constantly disparages President Tinubu’s administration over his cabinet members. He is quick to forget that many of the so-called cabinet members were brought by people like him, governors and party leaders from across the states of the Federation.

“And Mr. President has repeatedly told whoever cared to listen that he would not run a cabinet that is not prone to reshufflement like Nigerians witnessed under former President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Only recently, the assessment of the current crop of Ministers was done. And in a couple of days or weeks from now, President Tinubu would unveil a new cabinet reshufflement.”

In May, President Tinubu vowed to drop any member of his cabinet whom he feels falls short of the expectations of Nigerians.

Speaking at a meeting with the leadership of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President said he would continue to do his best for the country.

“I thank the cabinet members for their efforts, but I will relieve any of them of their duties anytime I feel that they are failing Nigerians,” the president had said. (Adapted from a report by Daily Trust)