Friends and members of this great forum,as we expect the official announcement of our in coming Ministers, I consider this thread pertinent and expedient as it will avail to us a quick glimpse of of what to expect from any prospective Minister.

We shall profile them in line with the information our disposal.

Please don't promote ethnic chauvinism in this thread.

Do you know them?

Well, we need to have an authentic list to make this exercise meaningful. The names being bandied about have been mere speculations. What do u think?

Moneyab:
Well, we need to have an authentic list to make this exercise meaningful. The names being bandied about have been mere speculations. What do u think?

Sure, as soon as I lay my hands on officially announced list.
We shall take off from there.

Now we have their names, I would personally like to focus on those names that are not too common in our everyday politics.

Abubakar Malami

Adebayo Shittu

Aisha Alhassan

Chris Ngige

Babatunde Fashola

Lai Muhammed

Ahmed Bello


Hadi Serika

Solomon Dalong

Audu Ogbeh


Rotimi Amaechi

Kayode Fayemi

Ogbonnaya Onu

Sen . Udo Udoma

Osagie Ehaneri

Suleiman Adamu

Ibrahim Jubril

Amina Ibrahim

Kemi Adeosun



Abdulrahaman Dambazau


Ibe Kachikwu

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki on Tuesday unveiled the names of the Ministerial nominees submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.



They include;

1. Dr. Chris Ngige – Fmr. Governor of Anambra State

2. Dr. Kayode Fayemi – Fmr. Governor of Ekiti State

3. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi – Fmr. Governor of Rivers State

4. Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN – Fmr. Governor of Lagos State

5. Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau (Rtd.) – Fmr. Chief of Defence Staff

6. Hajiya Aisha Alhassan – Fmr. Federal Lawmakers and Governorship Candidate

7. Dr. Ogbonaya Onu – Fmr. Governor of Abia State and Fmr. National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (which is part of the ruling All Progressive Congress)

8. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun – Fmr. Commissioner for Finance in Ogun State (South West Nigeria)

9. Alh. Abubakar Malami – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria

10. Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu – Group Managing Director, NNPC

11. Chief Audu Ogbeh – Fmr. Minister of Agricultural and Fmr. National Chairman of PDP

12. Sen. Hadi Sidika – Fmr. Federal Lawmaker

13. Ibrahim Usman Jibril

14. Udoma Udoh Udoma – Fmr. Federal Lawmaker

15. Ahmed Musa

16. Alh. Lai Mohammed – Nat. Publicity Secretary of APC

17. Suleiman Adamu

18. Chief Adebayo Shittu

19. Barr. Solomon Dalong – A Legal Practitioner

20. Amina Ibrahim – Special Adviser to the United Nation’s Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.

Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki announced that the Screening of Ministerial Nominees on the List will commence, Tuesday October 13, 2015.Behold our incoming Ministers and their past portfolio.

Source; www.channelstv.com.

So my dear friends a, what's your take o this "angels" that will will sailing the ships of our various ministries soonest?

More:


n this exclusive documentation, Editor of SIGNAL, Yemi Adebowale takes us through a profile by profile account of President Buhari’s ministerial nominees as unveiled on Tuesday by Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Audu Ogbeh

Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Benue State, Audu Ogbeh was a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria in 1972; Deputy Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, 1979; Federal Minister of Communications in 1982 and National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2001. The late Dr. Olusola Saraki was in the Senate that screened Audu Ogbeh in 1982 (33 years ago) for a ministerial appointment. Saraki’s son, Bukola will now screen him again for a ministerial appointment as President of the Senate in 2015.

Lt. General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd)

Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Kano State, Lt. General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd) was the Chief of Army Staff under the late President Umar Musa Yar’ Adua and played a key role in the Turai Yar’ Adua coup d’etat that smuggled the ailing President back into the country from his treatment overseas.

Chris Ngige

In 2003, Chris Ngige emerged governor of Anambra State amid widespread complaints of a massively rigged election. In August 2005, an election Tribunal led by Justice Nabaruma nullified Ngige’s 2003 victory. He appealed to the Nigerian Federal Court of Appeal, but the annulment was confirmed on 15 March 2006, in a judgment awarding victory to Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Ngige’s tenure as governor of Anambra State was marred by controversies, one of the most famed of which was the Okija shrine scandal which involved an alleged oath between Ngige and his former political godfather Chris Uba in the shrine.

Sulaiman Husaini Adamu

Buhari’s Jigawa State ministerial nominee, Sulaiman Husaini Adamu is a younger brother to the Acting INEC Boss, Amina Bala Zakari (nee Husaini Adamu). Zakari’s appointment by Buhari has come under fire from Nigeria’s opposition who say the appointment is her reward as a close Buhari family member and her role in compromising the March 28 presidential election in favour of Buhari.

Udoma Udo-Udoma

President Buhari’s alleged N2.1 billion Asokoro-Abuja mansion sits on number 9, Udoma Udo-Udoma Crecsenct named after Buhari’s Akwa-Ibom State ministerial nominee, Udo-Udoma.

Osagie Ehanire

Buhari’s Edo State ministerial nominee, Osagie Ehanire served as the Edo State Coordinator of Muhammadu Buhari 2015 Campaign Organisation.

Kemi Adeosun

Buhari’s Ogun State ministerial nominee, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun was a senior manager at the Price Waterhouse Coopers, London and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales. She is popularly referred to as “the Diezani of Ogun State.”

Rotimi Amaechi

Popularly known as the “ATM machine” of the Buhari presidential campaign, Rotimi Amaechi is Buhari’s Rivers State ministerial nominee. His tenure as Governor of Rivers state was characterized with allegations of lawlessness, government waste, corruption and incompetence.

Adebayo Shittu

Buhari’s Oyo State ministerial nominee, Adebayo Shittu was a member of Buhari’s defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). The Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected his nomination calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to revisit his nomination.

Chief Ogbonnaya Onu

Buhari’s Abia State ministerial nominee, the 63 year old Chief Ogbonnaya Onu was the National Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) before it was absorbed into the APC in February 2013.

Babatunde Fashola, SAN

Lagos State ministerial nominee Babatunde Fashola SAN is the competence and performance poster boy of the ruling APC government. He recently made news headlines after a government leak on how as governor, he spent over $400,000 of Lagos State funds in designing his personal website tundefashola.com.

Ahmed Isa Ibeto

Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Niger State, Ahmed Isa Ibeto was the deputy governor of the state under the PDP led government of Babangida Aliyu. He decamped to the APC when he failed to secure the PDP’s gubernatorial ticket.

Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan

Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Taraba State, Mrs. Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan joined the PDP in 2005 and decamped in 2014 to the APC.

Solomon Dalong

Buhari’s Plateau State ministerial nominee Solomon Dalong joined the Prisons Service as a Prison Assistant and rose to the rank of Assistant Inspector of Prisons. Following his training as an attorney, he was moved to the legal department of prisons where he served as Legal Officer II in the prisons headquarters prior to retirement. He was a member of President Buhari’s transition committee.

Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu

The ministerial nominee from Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, is the new Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He is the Odogwu of Onicha Ugbo in Aniocha North LGA Of Delta State.

Hadi Sariki

Hadi Sariki, an ex-pilot, is Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Katsina State. He is a former Senator representing Katsina North Senatorial District under the platform of Buhari’s defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

Kayode Fayemi

Kayode Fayemi, a former Governor of Ekiti State under the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), is Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Ekiti State. He was voted out of office by the people of Ekiti State in 2014 after serving four years as governor of the state.

Amina Mohammed

Kaduna State ministerial nominne, Amina Mohammed previously worked as senior adviser to the President of Nigeria on Millennium Development Goals for six years. Her nomination has been rejected by a Kaduna State based NGO over claims that she is from Gombe State.

Abubakar Malami, SAN

Abubakar Malami SAN is Buhari’s ministerial nominee from Kebbi State. A Buhari loyalist, he was one of those who worked closely to advance the interest of the opposition especially that of President Mohammadu Buhari over the years. He was the Lead Counsel of the Legal Team of Buhari’s defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

Alhaji Lai Mohammed

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is Buhari’s Kwara State ministerial nominee and spokesperson of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC). He is the brain behind APC’s fraudulent campaign promises including the “one meal a day” campaign, which Buhari disowned after his election.

Ibrahim Usman Jibril

After several Google searches, as at the time of this report, no concrete information was available on Buhari’s Nassarawa State ministerial nominee Ibrahim Usman Jibril.

Source: SIGNAL