As the current Federal Executive Council (FEC) clocks one year this Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed cabinet members to work hard to earn the trust of Nigerians.
This follows calls from a section of the public who have been calling for a cabinet reshuffle on the grounds that the present cabinet cannot bail the country out of its current socio-economic difficulties.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after the FEC meeting, the minister of solid minerals and steel development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who addressed journalists alongside the minister of water resources, Suleiman Adamu, and presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, disclosed that at the just concluded meeting, FEC reviewed the progress level and performance of the ministers one year after.
“The president’s charge is simple. You know the president is not a man of many words. His charge to us is just get on with it, ensure that you earn the trust of Nigerians by doing the best you can to serve the country,” Fayemi said.
He noted that the challenges ahead were still enormous and “we cannot afford to rest on our oars.”
“We read what you write and we get the feedback coming from the populace; we need to continue to explain, we need to communicate to Nigerians what we are doing.
“We would find a way to speak individually about what we have been doing in the last one year. At the ministry level, there will be some kind of commemoration but nothing extraordinary,” the minister said.
According to him, the review gave the ministers the opportunity to reflect on the progress they had made as a government, and the challenges they will have to tackle in the days and months ahead, in order to fulfil their commitments to the people of Nigeria who put them in office.
