President Goodluck has deployed some Ministers who survived today's cabinet shake-up to oversee the activities of the ministries which lost their ministers but declares that there is no political undertone to the sack of the ministers.
It was learnt that the sacked ministers were caught off guard because throughout the duration of the meeting, the president did not show any sign of his plan to do away with some of them.
"Just as the president was about to leave, then he turned round and said 'some of you Ministers will no
longer be with us, it is nothing special but its just the ways of democracy,"" the source said.
He then went ahead to read out the names of the removed ministers and immediately left the council chambers.
Mr. Maku has been deployed to supervise the Ministry of Defence, while the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, was assigned to oversee the Ministry of Education.
The Minister of State for Niger Delta Development, Darius Ishaku, will oversee the Ministry of Environment, while the Minister of Solid Mineral Development, Musa Sada, was assigned to oversee the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, just as Minister of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson, was assigned to oversee the Ministry of Science and Technology, vacated by Ita Ewa Okon.
The Minister of state, Works, Bashir Yuguda, was assigned to oversee the Ministry of National Planning following the sack of the longest serving cabinet member, Shamsudeen Usman, who was first appointed minister by late President Umaru Yar'Adua.
Ministers of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina and Power, Chinedu Nebo were directed to take charge of their ministries alone pending appointment of new ministers of state.
The President was said announced the sack of nine ministers from his cabinet during the weekly FEC meeting.
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