Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, may have locked in his safe, President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter listing his ministerial nominees, but the content is already seeping out, revealing who-is-who on the list.
According to TheCable, former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi are all on the list.
Also on the list is Alhaji Lai Mohammed, publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress, as well as Senator Chris Ngige and Dr. Ogbannaya Onu.
Senator Udoma Udo Udoma from Akwa Ibom State also made the list, according to TheCable.
Senator Aisha Alhassan, a former senator and APC governorship candidate in Taraba State is also said to be on the list. So are lawyer and senior advocate, Malami Abubakar, a former senator, Hadi Sirika and a former governorship candidate on the platform of the CPC, Adebayo Shittu, also a lawyer.
Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning,
Also on the list, according to the report is Amina Mohammed, current special adviser to the
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon. Kemi Adeosun, Ogun state former commissioner for finance, who was renominated by Governor Ibikunle Amosun Wednesday as commissioner is also on President Buhari’s cabinet list.
And so is Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, NNPC managing director, who may be named minister of state in the oil ministry, with President Buhari as the minister.
Also said to be on the list are: Yusuf Tuggar – (Bauchi) Umaru Abubakar Dembo (Kaduna) and Faruk Adamu Aliyu (Jigawa), Chief Audu Ogbeh, former Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, Solomon Dalong, Ahmed Isa Ibeto, Sulaiman Adamu and Ibrahim Jibril.