Goodluck Should Reconstitute His Cabinet Now (CKN Opinon Page)

President Goodluck Jonathan became an Acting President after he took office during the terminal illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua in January 2010.

Few days later a federal court empowered Jonathan to manage state affairs while Yar'Adua received medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, and on 9 February 2010 the Nigerian Senate confirmed him as Acting President.

On 10 February 2010, Jonathan demoted Minister of Justice Michael Aondoakaa to Special Duties, replacing him with Prince Adetokunbo Kayode

President Jonathan retained the remaining cabinet of  Yar'Adua's cabinet until 16 March 2010, when he dissolved it in an assertion of his authority over a divided administration where some members questioned his right to act as President.

On 6 April 2010, Jonathan swore in his new cabinet. Late President Yar'Adua later died on 5 May 2010, and Jonathan was sworn in as President the next day.

On July 2011 after he was sworn in for his first full four year term, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan appointed a new set of Ministers to man the affairs of the various Ministries.

This was in line with his governmen’st transformation agenda.

Two years down the line, a critical look at the performance of most of his ministers has shown that they were grossly ill prepared for the task ahead.

A look at each of them showed that nothing has changed,except for some key Ministries like Finance headed by Dr Ngozi Oknjo Iweala, Agriculture headed by Prof Akin Adewunmi,Works (Mike Onolememen),Aviation (Princess Stella Oduah) and to some extent Sports (Bolaji Abdullahi),other  Ministries have experienced total failure.

The power sector which was a bit on the rise under Prof Bert Nnaji has collapsed totally.

The education sector has experienced its worst results in recent years. The mass failure in WAEC and JAMB goes to show the level of incompetence of those at the helm of the affairs in that sector.

The Petroleum/Oil sector headed by Mrs Diezanne Alison Madueke has become the bedrock of corruption.

On a daily basis, reports of how billions and trillions of naira were siphoned from NNPC and other key parastatals under her watch have become the norm.Our refineries are running at low capacity,new ones are not being built

Unemployment especially among graduates is on the increase and the Labour Ministry seems not to have an answer to the problem. This has made many young graudates and unemployed youths to take to crime and other social vices.

Security remains the key challenge to the Goodluck admistration. The Boko Haram insurgents in many parts of the North has practically brought economic activities in these key Northern States to their knees

Kidnapping and violence crime are being perpetrated in other parts of the country especially in the South East, South South and South West.

Shelter and Housing are not available; health care is a mirage while water is drying up on a daily basis.

Inflation is hitting the roof while the gsm services have become so epileptic in the past few months.

The only people making progress presently are politicians.

It is my candid opinion that the President should on his second anniversary celebration (which comes up in few days time) dissolve his present cabinet as constituted.

He should look beyond party line just as President Olusegun Obasanjo did in his second term by bringing in technocrats and patriots who shares his vision for a better Nigeria as members of the new Federal Executive Council that all Nigerians will be proud of.

The time for politicking is over and he has only two years to prove if he should be trusted greater responsibilities as the leader of the largest black nation in the world.

Editor : Chris Kehinde Nwandu Is the Editor In Chief of CKN Nigeria..A Day With CKN is an opinion page published weekly.

Present Cabinet As Constituted

Ministry	Minister	State
Agric and Natural Resources (State)	Bukar Tijani	Borno
Attorney General, Justice	Mohammed Bello Adoke	Kogi
Aviation	Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi	Anambra
Education (State)	Mr Wike	Rivers
Defence (State)	Erelu Olusola Obada	Osun
Education	Ruqayyatu Rufai	Jigawa
FCT (State)	Olajumoke Akinjide	Oyo
Federal Capital Territory	Bala Mohammed	Bauchi
Finance	Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	Abia
Finance (State)	Yerima Lawal Ngama	Yobe
Foreign Affairs	Olugbenga Ashiru	Ogun
Foreign Affairs (State)	Viola Onwuliri	Imo
Health	Onyebuchi Chukwu	Ebonyi
Information and Communications,	Labaran Maku	Nasarawa
Interior	Comrade Abba Moro	Benue
Labour	Emeka Wogu	Abia
Mines and Steel Development	Mohammed Musa Sada	Katsina
National Planning	Shamsudeen Usman	Kano
Niger Delta Affairs	Godsday Orubebe	Delta
Niger Delta Affairs (State)	Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi	Niger
Petroleum	Diezani Alison-Madueke	Bayelsa
Police Affairs	Caleb Olubolade	Ekiti
Power	Prof Nebo	Enugu
Science and Technology	Ita Okon Bassey Ewa	Akwa Ibom
Sports	Bolaji Abdulahi	Kwara
Trade and Investment	Olusegun O. Aganga	Lagos
Trade and Investment (State)	Samuel Ioraer Ortom	Benue
Transport	Idris A.Umar	Gombe
Women Affairs	Zainab Maina	Adamawa
Works	Mike Onolememen	Edo
Works (State)	Bashir Yugudu	Zamfara