Lanre Issa-Onilu, a former national director of publicity
for the All Progressives Congress (APC), says ministers screened and confirmed
by the senate will be inaugurated soon.
He added that the president is tinkering with the existing
ministerial structure before inaugurating his cabinet.
On July 27, President Bola Tinubu sent a list of 28
ministerial nominees to the senate for screening and confirmation.
Six days later, the president forwarded an additional 19
names, to take the total number of ministerial nominees to 47.
Festus Keyamo, former minister of state for labour and
employment, was added to the list to take the number of nominees to 48.
On August 7, the senate confirmed 45 of the 48 ministerial
nominees.
The nominations of Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of
Kaduna; Stella Okotete (Delta) and Danladi Abubakar (Taraba) were withheld,
pending security clearance.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme
on Wednesday, Issa-Onilu said there is an ongoing restructuring with the
ministries, in order to lay a solid foundation for the ministers when they
resume.
“What we should ask is we need to ensure that we lay a solid
foundation even for the cabinet to come in and take off,” he said.
“This is a new government and Asiwaju is a technocrat and if
you bring someone to work with you, you must have a job description for the
person.
“On Monday, they are going to be inaugurated. We have
ministries, the president may have his ideas on how the ministries should work.
“He may want to
tinker with the existing structure and he needs to prepare the bed before
asking someone to come and lay on it.
“That is the only way to get things going.
“You don’t want to bring a minister in and say hold on you
need to restructure the base. There is restructuring going on.
“You are going to hear ministries in terms of nomenclature
you are not familiar with. And those are deliberate to ensure that you provide
the necessary will to get things done fast enough.
“The bottom line is
that there will be this exercise on Monday.”
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