Lukman: Tinubu Should Set Annual Performance Targets for Ministers or Expect Failure

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

A former National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the  All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has advised President Bola Tinubu to set annual performance targets for his ministers in order to ensure his ‘Renewed Hope’ agenda translates into tangible gains for Nigerians.

Lukman, in a statement yesterday, said for APC to emerge as a truly progressive party beyond bearing the name, Tinubu’s government must be dynamic, action-oriented and therefore competently able to improve on the quality of lives of Nigerians.

According to him, the performance review would help to keep Tinubu’s appointees on their toes, or else, the president should expect failure.

Lukman added that APC must unambiguously guarantee social justice and equitable distribution of resources and opportunities both within itself and as a party in control of governments at several levels in the country.

“What this requires at these early stages in the life of the administration is that the government must be able to set clearly defined targets, which must be achieved within the next four years.

“For instance, the government should define annual targets for all sectors and each mandate ministry led by the newly confirmed ministers should be given the responsibility to achieve them.

“Setting those targets and orienting all the newly elected and appointed APC representatives to apply themselves towards meeting them should not be taken for granted. In fact, once ministers are sworn in and no ministerial targets are given to them by the President, the seed of failure would have been planted.”

Lukman, therefore, stressed that the first task before Tinubu was ensuring that ministerial targets were given and putting in place stronger supervisory and regulatory framework both within government and as a party to ensure delivery.