In order to establish a “strong a feedback mechanism between citizens and government” on the eight priority areas of the Bola Tinubu administration, the Presidency announced its Citizens’ Delivery Tracker on Monday.

This was revealed on Monday at the CDT’s Go-Live ceremony in Abuja by Hadiza Bala-Usman, the President’s Special Advisor on Policy and Coordination.

“The platform is available as a web link (app.cdcu.gov.ng) and will be available as an app for download in the next few months,” said Bala-Usman.

The revelation on Monday, according to Bala-Usman, is the result of a lengthy process that began when Tinubu revealed plans for a ministerial assessment during the Cabinet Retreat for ministers and heads of government agencies in November of last year.

The presidential assistant clarified, “The CDCU held numerous bilateral meetings with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies within six weeks,” in order to arrive at the key performance metrics.

The eight key themes include: boosting agriculture to achieve food security; strengthening national security for peace and prosperity; unlocking energy and natural resources for sustainable development; and reforming the economy to ensure sustained equitable growth.

The others include improving transportation and infrastructure as growth-enabling sectors, concentrating on social investment, health, and education as crucial development pillars, accelerating diversification through industrialization, digitization, the creative arts, manufacturing, and innovation, and improving governance for efficient service delivery.

Bala-Usman disclosed that the Federal Government would give priority to citizen involvement in order to guarantee that Nigerians are included in the ministerial evaluation during an October TVC interview.

“We’re going to deploy an application, a software where citizens are able to report back on project-based deliverables that the federal government has committed to doing within the period to 2024,” she explained.

Detailing the process at the time, she said, “We sat with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. We have worked effectively to define exactly the deliverables for each ministry.

“And those deliverables are also deliverables that I mentioned cascade to the agencies of government. So, for example, you have the sectoral deliverables for a sector in health, and everything that is contained within the value chain or the ecosystem within that sector will be contained within the deliverables.

“Those deliverables are translated into key performance indicators for the respective ministries. Once you have your key performance indicators, you’re able to clearly understand what your deliverables are over the period of the four years of the administration.”

To monitor and evaluate the performance of federal ministries, departments, and agencies in advance of the first evaluation exercise at the end of this month, no fewer than 140 officials were drafted in late January.

The officials attended the third technical retreat, which started on Wednesday, the 24th of that month, in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State, for delivery desk officers of federal ministries. The conference focused on implementing presidential priorities and ministerial deliverables.

They were selected from 35 ministries, departments, and agencies under the federal government.

“It will involve a permanent secretary and directors of planning and other officials, four each from 35 ministries.

“They are considering the modalities of the assessment, the key performance indicators and the reporting mechanisms, and all of those,” an official at the CDCU told our correspondent.