President Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly considering sacking more ministers in his cabinet having performed below expectation in the ongoing performance appraisal.
It is understood that President Buhari will take a final decision when the appraisal exercise is finally completed but sources in Abuja suggest that he was not satisfied with the performance of some of the ministers whose names were said to have been compiled for necessary action.
Presidency sources said the president might have delayed the submission of names of new personalities to replace Nanono and Mamman to accommodate those who will equally take over from more ministers that failed to meet up with performance targets after the retreat.
Speaking on the development, a retired Permanent Secretary, Mr Olaniyi Ayodele Afolayan, said that one of the ways to manage performance was to use relevant tools that would ensure everybody got their roles by giving them their key performance indicators.
“To balance it, if you give people performance indicators, you must give them the tools and the resources to work with it. That is the expectation. If this is done, Nigerians should expect better service delivery,” Afolayan said.
Another retired permanent secretary who does not want to be named said the president was in a race against time.
“He has less than two years to deliver his legacy projects; to prove to Nigerians that he did well during his eight years as president.
“I wish he showed this kind of optimism from the first year of his administration by assessing his ministers and other people in the position of trust and sacked those who performed below expectation. It will have served as deterrence. Sadly, the president gave the impression that once you are appointed you will not be removed and therefore, many of them went to sleep on duty,” he said.
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