Tinubu To Get Ministers’ Q1 Assessment Report
President Bola Tinubu is expected to receive a report on the performance status of the Federal Government’s ministries, departments and agencies for the first quarter of 2024.
“What I know is that an interim report on the performance of the ministers has been submitted to the President and the report for the first quarter is being prepared,” a source said.
A second source, who did not want to be mentioned, also debunked speculations about some ministers being marked for a sack, describing them as “rumours”.
“People are carrying those rumours all over the place. May 29 is just weeks away, if the President is shaking up his cabinet, we would know by now,” the senior official who is privy to happenings in the cabinet stated.
On April 8, 2024, the President’s Special Adviser on Policy Coordination, Mrs. Hadiza Bala-Usman, who heads the Central Delivery Coordination Unit, affirmed that the CDCU had received reports from at least 20 of the 35 ministries.
She explained that the Q1 assessment report would be a product of a joint effort of the ministers, citizens and industry experts.
Bala-Usman, who spoke on Arise TV’s News Night, clarified, “Our submission is for the first quarter. So, the first quarter has just ended, and we have initiated the assessment process. The ministers have all been asked to submit their performance based on the deliverables.”
She asserted ministers will be assessed “based on what is out there in the public space. They would write to say, ‘Based on every deliverable you have given me, this is what I’ve done within the first quarter of the year.’
“Through the Citizens Delivery Tracker app, Nigerians will also say, ‘this is what we’ve seen the minister do’ and they would aggregate it,” said the presidential aide.
She also revealed, “The ministers have all been asked to submit what they’ve done in the first quarter. We have received submissions from about 20 ministries. We’re expecting the remaining and then we’re going to conclude the assessment and make a submission to the President.”
However, it could not be confirmed when the CDCU would transmit the Q1 report to the President as efforts to reach the CDCU did not yield results. As of Sunday evening, Bala-Usman did not respond to calls or text messages sent to her mobile line.
On October 17, 2023, she had announced that January 2024 was the ideal month to begin the exercise as all ministries would have received their budgets for the 2024 fiscal year.
“We’re looking to commence an assessment of the respective ministries in January 2024. We’re going to have a quarterly assessment of performance, which would culminate into an annual scorecard,” the former Chief of the Nigerian Ports Authority explained in an interview on TVC.
