Fear has gripped members of the Cross Rivers State cabinet as well as their dependants and loyalists as Governor of the state; Liyel Imoke plans a major reshuffle of the cabinet any moment from now.
The fear is based on the fact that none of the cabinet members knows who would be dropped or retained by the governor, who has been taking his time on the decision.
But Huhuonline.com can authoritatively reveal that the governor is now set to wield the big stick.
The governor, who expressed his readiness to carry out the major shake-up while speaking during Two Hours with the Governor, a programme on the Cross Rivers State Television, said he had been under pressure to reshuffle the cabinet but said he decided to do it at his own time.
“I have received a lot of calls, text messages and visits with many people especially politicians asking me to reshuffle my cabinet, but what they have not told me is who I will replace them with. This is a big challenge for me,” he said.
“You don’t just dissolve or reshuffle cabinet because people want you to do so. If I’m satisfied with the crop of the people I’m working with, why should I reshuffle my cabinet? What people want and like is to see changes and new faces periodically and government doesn’t work like that.
“If you look at my cabinet, it is more of technocrats whom we carefully selected to implement our blueprint, so it is not what the people say that matters but what we feel and think is good to achieve the desired goals for the people of Cross River State.
“However, there will be a change in the cabinet soon to eject new and fresh bloods into the areas we feel are it is needed.
“We are appraising the ministries and departments to see those who are not performing up to our expectations and change them in the spirit of good governance and not because the people who possibly don’t like your faces wanted the change.”
