By our reporter/ President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked two ministers of their appointments.
They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono, and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, who made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja at the Federal Executive Council meeting, disclosed that the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar, has been redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, while the Minister of State for Works, Abubakar Aliyu, is to take over as Minister of Power.
The exercise, according to Adesina, will continue in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
President Buhari is not known for sacking his ministers or rejigging his cabinet until the end of his tenure, as he is the first Nigerian president since 1999 not to have reshuffled his cabinet in a four-year tenure.
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