Security Checks Concluded, Full List Ready as Buhari is Set to Shake Up Cabinet

 

Barring any late change, President Muhammadu Buhari who returned to Nigeria, from London, United Kingdom, on Monday evening, is set to rejig his cabinet.

 

The president who had touched down at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at  7:00pm, was received at the airport by his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello and Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, among other dignitaries. He reportedly arrived the Presidential Villa, 30 minutes after.

 

According to Daily Sun, the cabinet could be rejigged on or before Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary as Presidency sources said a cabinet shake up had been on the cards “for a long time now. In fact, the final list is already with the president.”

 

Another source said the reshuffle confirmed the rejig had been in “the works. Security checks have been concluded and a list of those to be dropped have been tabled before the president. In fact, the reshuffle was to have been done three weeks ago.”

 

Yet, another presidency source confirmed that “some ministers will be sacked, but Nigerians will definitely be surprised at the calibre of those who will be dropped from the cabinet.

 

Senior Special Asssistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, however, denied knowledge of any cabinet reshuffle. “I’m not in Abuja and I don’t know what is happening there,” he said yesterday night.