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Ministers who are loyalists of the nine Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s camp may start counting their days as imminent shake-up in President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet may sweep them away. Just recently, on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA), Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State listed the nine PDP governors who voted for the re-election of Governor Amaechi in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum election as Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari (Kebbi), Aliyu Magatakarda Wamako (Sokoto), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), as well as Governor Amaechi and himself.

Indeed, their position is said to have run directly against the directive of the PDP leadership which had chosen Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State as the party’s consensus candidate for the NGF chairmanship slot in the May 23, 2013 elections. The imminent shake-up, Daily Newswatch learnt, will also affect Federal departments and agencies where these governors have loyalists and nominees.
Presidency sources said since these governors are no longer in the good books of the president, it is obvious that their nominees cannot be wholly trusted any longer. To continue click here:http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/2013/07/05/jonathan-set-to-remove-anti-jang-ministers/