{"id":17116,"date":"2021-10-07T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2021-10-07T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T19:04:22","slug":"buhari-to-sack-agf-malami-14-other-ministers-in-major-cabinet-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/buhari-to-sack-agf-malami-14-other-ministers-in-major-cabinet-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari To Sack AGF Malami, 14 Other Ministers In Major Cabinet Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Buhari<\/a> is planning to sack AGF Malami and 14 other Ministers in a major cabinet shakeup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Newsonline<\/a><\/strong> understands that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has finalised plans to sack at least 15 members of his cabinet, including the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami before the end of 2021, SaharaReporters has gathered.<\/p>\n

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A top source in government, however, told SaharaReporters that Malami has begun moves to truncate the plans.<\/p>\n

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The Chief Law Officer of the country, Newsonline Nigeria<\/a> <\/strong>learnt was said to have met with top members of the Aso Rock cabal to prevail on the President not to sack him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Buhari is planning to sack 15 Ministers with Malami topping the list. Someone gave him the hint and he has started fighting back so bad. He doesn\u2019t want to be sacked.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMoreover, he is enjoying the support of lots of corrupt politicians, including senior members of the cabal because he is assisting them to sabotage corruption cases,\u201d a presidential source told SaharaReporters.<\/p>\n

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Buhari had on September 1 sacked Saleh Mamman, the Minister of Power; and Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.<\/p>\n

The President in a statement after their sacking said changes in his cabinet will be \u201ca continuous process\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo years and some months into the second term, the tradition of subjecting our projects and programmes\u2019 implementation to independent and critical self-review has taken firm roots through sector reporting during Cabinet meetings and at retreats,\u201d the statement signed by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman had read.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese significant review steps have helped to identify and strengthen weak areas, close gaps, build cohesion and synergy in governance, manage the economy and improve the delivery of public good to Nigerians.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI must commend this cabinet for demonstrating unparalleled resilience that helped the government to navigate the disruption to global systems and governance occasioned by the emergence of COVID-19 shortly after inauguration. The weekly Federal Executive Council meeting was not spared because the traditional mode was altered.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs we are all aware, change is the only factor that is constant in every human endeavour and as this administration approaches its critical phase in the second term, I have found it essential to re-invigorate this cabinet in a manner that will deepen its capacity to consolidate legacy achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Buhari is planning to sack AGF Malami and 14 other Ministers in a major cabinet shakeup.   Newsonline understands that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has finalised plans to sack at least 15 members of his cabinet, including the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami before the end of 2021, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[729,728,19382,2540,6798,11628],"coauthors":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot_2288.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}