Prof. Itse Sagay
(SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against
Corruption (PACAC), on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari has not
carried out any cabinet reshuffle since he was sworn in almost three
years ago because majority of his ministers are doing their jobs well.
Speaking
in a chat with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Sagay singled out Babatunde Raji
Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing as one minister who has
performed creditably well in his ministry saying it will be a setback
for Nigeria if he is redeployed to another ministry.
Sagay who
also mentioned Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance and Rotimi Amaechi
as others who are on top of their job, adding that the president may
have decided not change his cabinet since he believed most of the
ministers are round pegs in round holes.
“In my view, most of the
ministers or shall I say a substantial members of his cabinet are doing
very well. Take for example Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works
and Housing. He is doing excellently well. It will be madness to change
a man like that who is so much on top of the job and is really doing
very well on all the arms of his ministry which are three” .
“It
will be a setback for this country if a man like that is taken to
another ministry. He has to start learning afresh, learning the ropes
afresh and to put another person in the Ministry of Power, Works and
Housing to start learning afresh in such a critical ministry will be a
grave mistake”.
“Also, Kemi Adeosun the Minister of Finance is
also doing extremely well. If you look at Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of
Transport he is doing very well. I have just mentioned three and there
are others who are also doing very well” .
“That is my impression
that the president doesn’t want the status quo to be disturbed because
he has got the best hands doing the best jobs to which they are posted”
he said.