The Presidency has revealed the yardsticks used by President Bola Tinubu in relieving five of his ministers of their jobs.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, revealed the yardsticks used for the exercise.
Onanuga also relayed the role the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Hadiza Bala-Usman, played in the ministers’ dismissal from the cabinet.
In an interview on ARISE TV, Onanuga said Tinubu acted on Nigerians’ perception.
According to him, Bala-Usman was assigned to oversee a performance appraisal, which involved gathering public feedback on the ministers’ work.
The presidential aide further defended Tinubu’s decision to appoint seven new ministers to his cabinet.
He said the Nigerian government needs a lot of hands to tackle the problem that the country is facing.
Onanuga said: “When the ministers were sworn in, the President actually told them that as the president, he has the power to hire and fire, and that he would not hesitate to remove ministers who could not perform.
“There was a retreat in October last year where he also repeated the same warning about his plan to always try to rejig his cabinet in case some are not performing well.
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“It was not just something that was done whimsically.
“I think Hadiza Bala Usman, Special Adviser on Policy and Coordination, in fact brought technology into it by asking Nigerians to score the minister.
“So, whoever was removed was based on some empirical facts and their public perception.
“Nigerians actually did the scorecard and the President acted on the results.
“But the expectation of the public.
“Some weeks ago at the cabinet meeting, the President actually challenged the ministers to go out and tell Nigerians what they have been doing for the past one year or so.
“According to the president, the perception outside there by the people is that the people feel that the government is not performing, and the government believes that the government is performing, but the ministers were not going out to really project government the appropriate way.”
