According to Thecable, President Muhammadu
Buhari’s ministerial list contains a number of familiar All Progressives
Congress (APC) names such as Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos state,
and Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state, TheCable reports.
Also nominated to be minister is Lai Mohammed,
national publicity secretary of the ruling party, and Kayode Fayemi, who lost
his Ekiti governorship re-election bid in 2014 to Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
From the south-east are the likes of Chris Ngige,
former governor of Anambra state and former senator of the federal republic;
and Ogbonnaya Onu, first executive governor of Abia state and former national
chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), on whose ticket Buhari
contested and lost the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections.
Udoma Udo Udoma, a former senator who represented
Akwa Ibom south senatorial constituency at the national assembly, made it as
well.
Buhari also nominated for ministerial appointment,
Aisha Alhassan, who was on the brink of becoming the first elected female
governor before eventually losing the Taraba state governorship election to
Darius Ishiaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
From his days at the Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC), Buhari picked Malami Abubakar, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN)
and former legal adviser of the defunct party; Hadi Sirika, a former pilot and
former CPC senator who represented Katsina north senatorial district; as well
as Adebayo Shittu, former governorship candidate of the legacy party in Oyo
state.
Ibe Kachikwu, group managing director of the
Nigerian National Petroleum (NNPC), is a surprise appearance on the list. But
with Buhari already declaring himself minister of petroleum resources, it is
likely that Kachikwu will combine his current portfolio with that of the
minister of state for petroleum resources.
Amina Mohammed, former special adviser to the
Nigerian president on millennium development goals (MDGs) and current special
adviser to United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on post-2015
development planning, is also a nominee.
Kemi Adeosun, former commissioner for finance in
Ogun state, was nominated as well.
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