The presidency says President Bola Tinubu is ready to sack any member of his cabinet over incompetence.
Speaking when he featured on a television programme on Monday morning, presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said failure to achieve set goals may cost anyone his job.
“President Bola Tinubu is someone who has the results. He says ‘these are your benchmarks, I know what I want you to achieve, I’m not expecting you to just come up with some plan when you get there. I’m telling you the time frame within which I expect you to achieve’.
“The question now is about enforcements and the President has shown, as he did during his time in Lagos State as governor, that he is not someone that is afraid to fire anybody.
“He is not somebody that is afraid to levy quick sanctions to ensure that they get the results that he wants ’cause, ultimately, if this administration fails, they will not say a minister failed or a set of ministers failed. They will say President Bola Tinubu failed, and he will not accept failure.
“And if you don’t, there are consequences. He’s ready to fire a minister at the drop of a dime if he is not getting what he wants. Absolutely.”
Recall that ex-President Muhammadu Buhari was blamed for leaving many of his ministers despite some complaints bordering on incompetence. Some ministers even spent 8 years with him.
Meanwhile, the presidential spokesman said Tinubu is prepared to work closely with the National Assembly to bring down government expenditure.
“The President is working hand in hand with the National Assembly to see how we can also bring down the level of expenditure within the National Assembly, both on the books and off the books.
“What I mean by off the books without being controversial is that we know that there has been a history of the National Assembly injecting a lot of projects within MDAs that may not be suited to the function and roles of those Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), and the President is ready to do that,” he said.
