Posted by Amarachi on Thu 24th Oct, 2024 - tori.ng
Onanuga noted that despite appointing seven new ministers, President Tinubu’s administration is still actively working on ways to significantly lower the cost of governance.
President Bola Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu is set to cut down government expenses after he reshuffled his cabinet.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this known in an interview on ARISE TV.
Onanuga noted that despite appointing seven new ministers, President Tinubu’s administration is still actively working on ways to significantly lower the cost of governance.
According to the Presidential Adviser, Nigerians will today hear the announcement about Tinubu’s effort in ensuring that the cost of governance is reduced.
He said, “By tomorrow, the President will actually be announcing some cutting down in government expenses, starting from the ministers. Tomorrow, I don’t want to pre-empt it, we have a statement ready, I don’t want to pre-empt it, but it will be drastic to show the government is really serious about reducing the cost of governance.
“The government knows what it’s doing, that look, to really tackle the big issues in our country, you need many hands, many competent hands to really help to drive the agenda of government. It’s not the largeness, but government is going to do a lot of things, like I said, from tomorrow, you will hear some announcements about what government is trying to do to make sure that we reduce the cost of running the government.”