Wike, El-Rufai, Oyetola Makes Ministerial Nominees List
The immediate past Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, and his colleague from Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, have made the list of ministerial nominees.
According to report, President Bola Tinubu sent the ministerial list to the Senate in the early hours of Thursday.
The list is coming two days before the President’s deadline as stipulated by the constitution as amended by the ninth Assembly.
Tinubu, according to the 1999 constitution as amended by the Ninth Senate, has barely two days left out of the 60 days deadline stipulated for the President to unveil his cabinet members.
It was also learnt that popular economist, Olawale Edun, a former Deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Adebayo Adelabu, the women leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Betta Edu, all made the list.
Also on the list is the former Minister of Health under Goodluck Jonathan who recently rejected an international job, Ali Pate.
Others who made the President’s cabinet are Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), former Cross River governor, Ben Ayade, his colleague from Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, and the President’s Special Adviser on Media, Strategy and Special Duties, Dele Alake.