Reshuffle your cabinet now, clerics tell Buhari

By Aideloje Ojo
Minna

An Abuja-based social commentator and founder of the Light House Ministries, Abuja, Pastor Shola Adesoye, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his cabinet now in order to deliver on his change mantra.
Adesoye made the call in Minna at the weekend in an interview with Blueprint after delivering a lecture as the guest speaker at the pastoral conference for ministers of God in Minna.
According to him, the political ministers already had enough time to demonstrate their competences.
He said: “In 2015, Nigerians from the North, South, East and West came out and cast their votes for President Muhammadu Buhari to become elected President. That was a huge mandate. The change mantra was believed by Nigerians. Nigerians want change. It is important that the president rises up to the challenge and demonstrate leadership.”

He said the prevailing economic recession and other hardship in the country were not entirely the fault of President Buhari, but due to waste of resources by previous administration, adding that the President stop the blame game and shake up positive things and continue with the fight against corruption.
He blamed the problem of the country on lack of good leadership arising from candidates’ selection processes that were not transparent, adding that in the last elections, we had two political parties and the candidates that those two parties presented became the only two options.
He stated that while we demand for the right people and the best from the leadership, the church and the ministers of God, have the responsibility to pray, speak truth to power, stressing that “it is in speaking truth to power that we can bring our political leaders to alignment.”
In a separate interview, the founder and serving overseer of the Great House Ministries and chief host of the conference, Pastor Joshua Jeremiah, expressed the hope that the programme would translate in, so many ways, into national development.
He said the over 150 pastors from local assemblies would go back and begin to retrain their people towards instilling on them the consciousness of kingdom impact for the development of the nation.