TRUTH: Why President Jonathan Sacked Ministers

The cabinet shake-up, which consumed the ministers of foreign affairs, education, science and technology, housing and urban development, national planning, and environment, came as a rude shock to observers. From all indications it hardly has any relationship with a genuine agenda of brightening the country’s socio-economic indicators, but a consolidation of the power base of the president who is forced to bring in loyalists in the face of opposition within his ruling party.

Speaking with BusinessDay, Opeyemi Agbaje, a public policy analyst, was emphatic in stating that “the sack is centred on politics rather than performance, and suggests the presidency may now be going on the offensive with a strategy of political consolidation… I can think of a few ministers whose names may have been included if the criteria was performance.”

Just take a look at the present overseers to the currently vacant offices, the likes of Mr Nyesom Wike and you will know that President Jonathan's move is purely political. He is fighting hard to hide behind those he feels are loyal to him.