Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, has ordered his ministers to give their performance reports to Nigerians about his first anniversary in office.

The low-key first-anniversary commemoration will be celebrated by sectoral media briefings by the 47 federal ministries beginning on Thursday (today), according to Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and National Orientation, who made this announcement during a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Abubakar Bagudu, the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, joined Idris at the media briefing on Wednesday.

On March 1, 2023, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced that Tinubu had won the 2023 presidential contest.

With 8.7 million votes, Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress candidate, defeated PDP contender Atiku Abubakar, who received 6.9 million votes, and Labour Party candidate Peter Obi, who received 6.1 million votes.

The President said on November 1, 2023, that the ministers in his cabinet would only be allowed to stay in their positions based on performance, which would be evaluated every quarter, at the start of a three-day cabinet retreat for ministers, presidential advisers, permanent secretaries, and top government workers.

“If you are performing, nothing to fear. If you miss the objective, we’ll review it. If no performance, you leave us. No one is an island and the buck stops on my desk,” said the President.

Before the evaluation, on January 24, 2024, at least 140 officials received training from the Central Delivery Coordination Unit, the organization in charge of the assessment, on how to monitor and evaluate the performance of federal ministries, departments, and agencies.

In an April interview with the media, Hadiza Bala-Usman, the head of the CDCU and the President’s Special Advisor on Policy Coordination, confirmed that the organization has received performance reports from at least 20 of the 35 ministries. She clarified that a collaborative approach involving the ministers, public, and business experts will result in the assessment report.

Bala-Usman said, “Our submission is for the first quarter. So, the first quarter has just ended, and we have initiated the assessment process. The ministers have all been asked to submit their performance based on the deliverables.”

She stressed that ministers would be assessed “Based on what is out there in the public space. They would write to say, ‘Based on every deliverable you have given me, this is what I’ve done within the first quarter of the year.’

“Through the Citizens Delivery Tracker app, Nigerians will also say, ‘this is what we’ve seen the minister do’ and they would aggregate it.’’

To lower inflation, stabilize the economy, and draw in foreign investment, the Tinubu administration has carried out several important reforms. He brought a stop to the corrupt fuel subsidy system, which resulted in increasing gasoline and transportation expenses, food inflation, and suffering for the entire nation. The government gave the agriculture sector significant funding to combat food inflation, including N200 billion to increase agricultural production and guarantee food security.

But his reign has also ushered Nigerians into its worst cost of living crisis in decade, thus questioning the effectiveness of the reforms