Strong indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu has completed the list containing the names and designations of those who will serve in his reshuffled cabinet.
Multiple sources in the Presidency, who confided in Saturday PUNCH, said Tinubu had concluded the list of ministers to drop and those to retain and was expected to release it on Thursday night, a day after he arrived in the United Kingdom for his two-week annual leave.
Following the biting economic hardship and the nationwide protests last August, President Tinubu has been facing increasing pressure from within and outside his party, the All Progressives Congress, to sack underperforming ministers.
While the president periodically warned against underperformance, his cabinet remained mostly unchanged, except for suspending the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, in January 2024.
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