EXCLUSIVE: Buhari cancels weekly FEC meetings
The federal executive council (FEC) meeting, which used to hold weekly since 1999, will now take place once in two weeks, TheCable can report.
President Muhammadu Buhari has decided that meeting every Wednesday is surplus to requirement, a senior government official told TheCable.
“And FEC will no longer be all about awarding contracts but a serious discussion of policy issues and appraisal of ministerial performance,” the official said.
FEC has been held just once since the appointment of ministers, with the only meeting taking place on November 11 — the day they were inaugurated.
There was no meeting on November 18, and Buhari was in Ikenne, Ogun state, for the burial of HID Awolowo on November 25.
Buhari will not be in the country on December 2 because of his international commitments.
It is still not clear when the next meeting will hold.
“The president believes once he has given you a job, you have to deliver. He was very painstaking in picking the ministers and he is convinced he has picked a very good team, so it is now left for them to deliver the goods with minimal supervision,” the official said.
“FEC meetings will now be for brainstorming on policies and performance review, not just contracts.”
In the past, decisions on such matters as purchase of cooking stoves and waste bins were discussed at FEC and announced to the world by ministers at media briefings after the meetings.
its an encouraging approach towards governance. the minister should commit their time more to work, but not withstanding there should be maximum supervisions less they are carried away by the flamboyancy of office thus failing to deliver.
I pity this country. So many people are so ignorant. The highest decision making body to seat twice a month, and if the president is not around, the meeting wouldn’t hold. Memos will pile up, it has in effect shown you that Buhari does not lie.
He said Ministers are noise makers. The few technocrats he appointed would not be able to work.
Citizens don’t realise that, the performance appraisal he needs, the activities must first be approved by the president and the council.
The presidency is taking the shape of feared, a one man government. Nigerians are too blind to see. Big shame
In this time and age some of their meetings can be don through conference call dats why we ave the internet and aids following dem around dey can easily setup all this gadgets up.