OBJ understands Naija politics far better than Tinubu despite the fact that Tinubu is a Heavy Weight player too

So na OBJ and tinibu dey look for the heavenly saints?

Obiagelli:

Buhari

lol... i no go talk

midolian:
lol..let's assume he has been doing it alone(which you are not happy about)..and now, he he is not doing it "alone", shouldn't you be happy?

I prefer he does it alone..... he has super powers na... all ds ministers will come and chop money now

And they said they're fighting corruption. Nonsense broom party

Chie.... I dey laugh

midolian:
I hope baba comes up with the best men..I can see some tested and trusted hands here

I was also expecting some new people but what am seeing in that list is the same FAILED old things. But Nigeria sha. That list contain more of praise singers and not the Saints promised by Buhari. Damn.

jagaBAT vs EBOLA EWU...

With midoLIAR as the umpire...

Obiagelli:
To many former this former that. Now I understand why Buhari is not keen on this ministers thing

What he promised us was professionals and technocrats ooo. This one wey e dey do former this and former that. But I guessed that was why he reserved the ministerial slots for them. He has brought in new faces in his major appointment.

make Dix man do somting joor, dis news of ministers and corruption don de tire me self, evrdy ppl are becoming jobless i pray his slowness is for d good! But he bttr act fast b4 unemployment rate pass hm power! We ve dem plenty in Dix nairaland

Buhari should neither trust OBJ, nor his nominees! OBJ could never be a friend to Buhari.

Vivalavida99:
Obj check mating Tinubu since Nigeria return to civilian rule.

Or Tinubu checkmating Obj Since 1999.

one thing is certain, not all will make the list at the end.

OZAOEKPE:
"connections in high places, tell me how this country go take better?"

If I nor tire, it means am not true to myself. Apc just just used number, supported by enthnicity and religion push out GEJ. The same old win in new pot.

I guessed that was why he said ministers are noise makers. All these recycled politicians. But wait ooo. If ffk no dey dat list I go break person saraki head on monday

two wolves

Whatever sha.

Speculations............SPECULATIONS EVERYWHERE. We wait....... I drink my paraga......... Monet.......and shisha.

what about imo state i and abia is their no hope for them?

midolian:
It is no longer news that President Muhammadu Buhari is set to constitute his cabinet.

What Nigerians are keen on, however, is knowing those who would make the final list Buhari will send to the National Assembly for confirmation.

Already, a number of individuals – professionals, technocrats and politicians – have been screened by the Department of State Services (DSS).

The process recently concluded has confirmed the president’s intent to meet the end of September deadline he set for himself regarding the much-anticipated ministerial list.

But indications have emerged on how former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, have been slugging it out in recent weeks to have their candidates make the final list as well as get certain ministerial positions.

Obasanjo, it was leant, was given two ministerial slots of Ogun and Osun, while Tinubu and South-West leaders would fill the four other slots remaining in the region.

According to New Telegraph, a former Lagos State Commissioner for Finance and a nominee of Tinubu into the cabinet, Wale Edun, “has become the first casualty of the ego war.”

Tinubu had recommended Edun to Buhari as Minister of Finance and has been screened by the Department of State Services (DSS).

He may now be replaced by Chairman, Citibank Nigeria Limited and one-time Lagos State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Yemi Cardoso, as a Lagos representative in the cabinet.

DAILY POST gathered that drama over Edun started when a group of influential Lagos indigenes, including traditional rulers and some of his colleagues that served in the Tinubu administration, kicked against his choice as a Lagos State ministerial nominee.

According to them, Edun is not a Lagosian only that he has lived all his adult life in the state.

But Tinubu insisted on Edun’s candidature and requested that Edun be named as Ogun State nominee, a move Obasanjo and Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun resisted because they already have a candidate.

Obasanjo then sent word to Tinubu to stop pushing Edun as Ogun State nominee, because he was someone whose work and career were rooted in Lagos State.

The Ota farmer also cited the example of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo whom he considered to be more of a Lagosian than an Ogun indigene, but was nominated by Tinubu as Vice President.

Obasanjo and Amosun have agreed to give the state’s slot in the cabinet to a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Auditor, Chief Bode Mustapha.

Other Obasanjo’s nominees are former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun); former Governor of Ekiti State and Deputy National Chairman (South) of the APC, Segun Oni (Ekiti); former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili and former Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.

Obasanjo in his first visit to Buhari in Abuja submitted the names and got favourable assurances.

In his second visit, Obasanjo reminded the president of his candidates and the promise Buhari made to him.

“The president assured Baba that not all will be ministers,” a source had told DAILY POST after that meeting.

“But that those who do not make the ministerial list would get other appointments. Ambassadorial slots part of the altnernative.”

It would be recalled that less than 48 hours after the two retired generals met, Tinubu and former Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, visited Buhari to inform him that South-West APC leaders would not accept a situation where Obasanjo would determine those who become ministers.

New Telegraph further quoted a source that Tinubu and Akande did not oppose the choice of Oyinlola as a minister representing Osun State in respect of an earlier agreement.

“It was a moral issue. Obasanjo is not a member of the APC and cannot appropriate the positions of the zone to himself. The South-West leaders have been meeting for two months on the ministerial nominee, only for Obasanjo to sit in Ota and draw up a ministerial list. That is why the leaders kicked against the idea.

“That will be killing the party in the South-West. He can’t be an alternate APC. Obasanjo should be respected as a leader, but he can’t hijack what belongs to the region. “On Obasanjo’s ministerial list, former Governor Oyinlola featured just as his name featured from the list submitted from the state.

“There was no resistance to Oyinlola’s nominee because that was part of the agreement before his defection from the PDP to the APC. The party has fulfilled one leg of the agreement by ceding the senatorial slot to Senator Isiaka Adeleke who also defected from PDP to the APC.”

Meanwhile, Buhari would submit the ministerial list to the National Assembly next week either before or during his trip to New York on Tuesday for the United Nations conference.

The newspaper also reported that Buhari may have settled for Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and former Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as the nominee from the state.

He and former Governor of old Abia State, Dr. Ogbannaya Onu, lost out in the race for Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

Onu is now expected to be filled in as the candidate for Ebonyi ministerial slot.

Respected economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, is the likely nominee of Delta State. He is being backed by professionals in APC led by Osinbajo.

Former Governor of Kano State, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, may be forwarded as Kano candidate despite being a serving senator.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Abdurahman Dambazzau, is also expected to make the list. It is not know if Buhari will make him Minister of Defence.

For Edo State, former Executive Chairman, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omogui-Okauru or a former Special Adviser to Obasanjo on Programme and Policy Monitoring, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, may get the state’s slot.

In Kwara, a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, may fill the state’s slot, except Buhari requests another name. Reason: Abdullahi is a close ally of Senate President Bukola Saraki, whom the president seems uncomfortable with.

Abdullahi was the Deputy Director, Directorate of Policy and Strategy of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation. Should he fail to make the list, enter National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

Ekiti slot still looks dire for former Governors Niyi Adebayo, Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi after Buhari personally expressed interest in human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN).

In fact, Osinbajo and Tinubu, are pushing for his candidacy as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice while ambassadorial slot for Ekiti is reserved for Fayemi.

In Adamawa, Boss Gida Mustapha, a lawyer and member of the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee set up by the president, may become minister. Mustapha lost the APC governorship ticket to incumbent Governor, Senator Bindow Jibrilla.

In Kebbi, Alhaji Abubakar Malami (SAN), is highly favoured.

He is also a member of the transition committee and has been a long time associate of Buhari since his days in Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) where he was National Legal Adviser.


http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/19/how-obasanjo-scuttled-tinubus-ambition-of-producing-buharis-finance-minister/

Lalasticlala

if truly there is hell nigerian leaders should be in the highest realm of hell.

I can't just imagine that human beings can be this evil. They are just toying around and some people are dieing of hunger. They are mocking masses for being poor after they made them poor.

That abbookkii that is waiting for jesus and his angels to come and fill the ministerial post dey vex me die. May thunder fire him and his family in jesus name.

crixtex:
so buhari dey fear Obj.... why cant buahri choose his own technocrats?..... n o wonder OBJ cant be probed....hahaha.... spineless presido

Obj holds Buhari by the balls, any movement and you have têsticlês splattered all over the floor of Aso Rock...

Na still the same people. No youth. same old same old

Does anyone find it strange that the source of this article is Daily post and their (Daily post) source is another online paper (new Telegraph?)


May be i should start my own news paper and just report the news reported by other people.

People say Saraki is overambitious. I wonder what they say about Tinubu. The man wants to pocket the nation's economy alone. How can one man nominate the Chairman of FIRS and the Minister of Finance as the same time. It should be condemned in its entirety. If he eventually succeeds, it means he will be indirectly in charge of all our income and expenditure. He has successfully done the calculation to get the Vice President, Chairman of FIRS so that his another stooge (Finance Minister) will hurriedly approve any generated revenue he wants to divert for his personal use. Or better still, to get the FIRS Chairman and the Finance Minister to approve his company, Alpha Beta to be in charge of all our revenue as he is doing in Lagos State. Please, Buhari should not make the mistake of giving Tinubu both Finance Minister and FIRS Chairman. It is very dangerous to our economy. That man is terrible.

dayodare49o:
if truly there is hell nigerian leaders should be in the highest realm of hell.
I can't just imagine that human beings can be this evil. They are just toying around and some people are dieing of hunger. They are mocking masses for being poor after they made them poor.
That abbookkii that is waiting for jesus and his angels to come and fill the ministerial post dey vex me die. May thunder fire him and his family in jesus name.

Watch your tongue fella!

My wish is for the office of the Attorney General to be separated from the Ministry of Justice. Falana should be the AG.

emilyone:


Watch your tongue fella!

may thunder fire you and family. Madness. Tell him I curse is him and his family let me see how powerful can a president be

midolian:
lol..let's assume he has been doing it alone(which you are not happy about)..and now, he he is not doing it "alone", shouldn't you be happy?

It depends on who he is doing it with. PDP destroyed Nigeria for the past 16 years, in that 16 years OBJ was in charge for 8 years, the remaining 8 years he gave us the people that finished the destruction where he stopped. If you truly support change and believe in it you should be frowning at the mention of OBJ nominating ministers for this change govt. Look at his nominees, the same people he walked with under PDP.

agarawu23:
Politics sha

But I don't trust this man called OBJ

me2

Chosen1984:
Baba Vs Jagaban!!! But i can't believe Oyinola is being Considered!!!
Oyinlola - Military Governor Oyinlola- Civilian Governor Oyinlola- MINISTER AGAIN!!!!!!! HABA

Abi oooo

crixtex:
So u call Ministers noise makers wat will u call d president??

Chief Noise Maker.

Abi what has he been doing since 29 May when he resumed office because he has NOT been working to deliver his campaign promises