Which Minister Is Responsible For Social Welfare And Innovation? Akande, a spokesman for Osinbajo, criticizes President Tinubu’s list of ministers for roles that are duplicated.He urged the president to make it clear where the portfolio for “innovation” would be headquartered and to better articulate social welfare, which had been transferred to the health ministry.
A representative for former vice president Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to specify which of his recently nominated ministries is in charge of “Innovation” and “Social Welfare.”
The topic was posed by Akande on Friday while he appeared on Channels Television he claimed the newly appointed ministers had the ability to deliver but expressed concern about the need to prevent overlap in ministry responsibilities.
He urged the president to make it clear where the portfolio for “innovation” would be headquartered and to better articulate social welfare, which had been transferred to the health ministry.According to the former presidential adviser, the President needs to make it clear who is in control of the “innovation” portfolio, which was previously split between the Ministries of Science and Technology and Communication and the Digital Economy. According to Akande, “An important item we may have to look at is, if you look at the list of the ministries, there are two critical questions that the Federal Government must address. I believe the President must address these: First, where is the innovation? A representative of science, technology, and digital economy.
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According to Akande, “An important item we may have to look at is, if you look at the list of the ministries, there are two critical questions that the Federal Government must address. I believe the President must address these: First, where is the innovation? It is necessary to resolve the conflict between the Minister of Communication, Innovation, and Digital Economy and the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation.

Are we going to have a situation where there is innovation both here and there? The reason this is important is that under the previous administration, even when innovation was not under the purview of the Science and Technology Ministry, the people in Science and Technology simply assumed that the innovation was under their purview, and the people in Communication and Digital Economy also made such an assumption. It is likely that this has been resolved by the two ministers.
“Now that you know there were meetings where they were both fighting hard battles, I believe it is crucial for the president to clarify where innovation is?””Second, many have even taken notice of the fact that the President now has two coordinating ministers: the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Social Welfare and the Minister of Finance. And what exactly is social welfare? Is social welfare what Social Development once offered under the heading of humanitarian affairs but no longer does?
Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has replaced Humanitarian Affairs, Social Welfare, and Disaster Management, although social welfare has been moved to health. Now, social progress and social welfare are the same thing, right?”I understand what the president is trying to do by bringing social welfare into line with health is, while he is trying to advance the microeconomic issue in the economy maybe 4-5% GDP figure in a positive trajectory, he also wants to keep an eye on how that impacts the people in real-time, as why he brought the idea of social welfare which is a very commendable thing, but it is important for us to clarify is that socio-welfare is the same thing as social development?”
What we must understand is that the Federal Executive Council is the President’s cult; it is what the president wants in terms of the setting and arrangement that would cause conflicts of interest and potential tension among ministers, especially the minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, a former commissioner, who has to oversee other ministries with former governors as ministers, he said.
Akande continued, “These ministers are selected at the president’s leisure, and they carry out his wishes. You can see that he made some modifications because he has the legal authority to hire and fire anyone at any moment. He is the one who establishes the KPIs and decides what must be done in accordance with the law.
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