OrlandoOwoh:

Under Jonathan, was Okonjo-Iweala not a card-carrying member of PDP? Didn't she previously hold a ministerial post under Obasanjo?

chuna1985:






Technically A technocratic
government is one in which the ministers are not
career politicians; in fact, in some cases they may
not even be members of political parties at all. They
are instead supposed to be "experts" in the fields of
their respective ministries. So the classic example is
that the Finance Minister would be someone with an
academic background in economics who had worked
for years at the IMF, but has not previously run for
elective office or been heavily involved in election
campaigns.

chuna1985:






Technically A technocratic
government is one in which the ministers are not
career politicians; in fact, in some cases they may
not even be members of political parties at all. They
are instead supposed to be "experts" in the fields of
their respective ministries. So the classic example is
that the Finance Minister would be someone with an
academic background in economics who had worked
for years at the IMF, but has not previously run for
elective office or been heavily involved in election
campaigns.

Demdem:


In otherwords, there is no technocrat government operating in any democracy anywhere in the world.
There is no single democracy anywhere in the world that they dont have politicians as ministers

ibnjarir93:
Funny isn't it? So you shied away from making an example with World Bank, but stop short at mentioning her sister organisation, so that no one would suspect you are referring to Ngozi whose tenure as Nigeria's finance minister was a disaster. How disingenuous.

omenka:
Asss-licking Dufoos, you are the stupidd one here. He actually did say it. It isn't a secret Jonathan is acutely handicapped when it comes to speech making and spoken english. www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/politics-of-grammar/19359-president-jonathan-s-awkward-grammatical-miscues-on-the-campaign-trail

OrlandoOwoh:
No sooner was President Muhammdu Buhari was sworn in on May 29 than some Nigerians started saying they would love his cabinet to be made up of more "technocrats" than politicians.

My question is, who is a technocrat? Is he a person that has never held any elective or appointive post in politics, and is more concentrated in his profession, like those against Buhari's ministerial nominees are wont to make us believe? Does a person whom hitherto was concentrated in his profession in a private or public firm lose his technocracy when he ventures into politics? If this is true, did Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala lose her technocracy as the Minister of Finance in the last government because she was earlier a Minister during the government of Obasanjo. Did Kayode Fayemi lose his techocracy as a lecturer and diplamat when he became Ekiti State Governor?

I took my time to check what the word, techocrat is. According to the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary, it is an expert in science, engineering, etc. who has a lot of power in politics and/or industry.

I will list the names of of the ministerial nominees, trying, as much as I can, not to attach their attainments in politics. It will be strictly professional attainments in the private or governmental sector:

(1) Chris Ngige: MBBS from UNN. Retired as a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Health.

(2) Abdulrahman Danbazzau: Rose to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant upon graduation from the DNA in 1979. US Army Military Police School. Bsc Criminal Justice from Kent State University. Became the first officer in the Army to have PhD in 1989. He held different positions in the Army.

(3) Kayode Fayemi: B.A. (Unilag). Msc (OAU). PhD (University of London). He worked as a lecturer, journalist and researcher in Nigeria and the UK. He was a lecturer in NIPSS, Kuru, Jos.

(4) Rotimi Amaechi: B.A. (Uniport). Worked in Pamo Clinics, Port Harcourt as PRO. He was in the BoD of West Africa Glass Industry and Risonpalm Nigeria Limited.

(5) Tunde Fashola: LLB (Uniben) was into legal practice till he went into politics. He became a SAN in his early 40's.

(6) Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan: LLB. She was Chief Registrar of the High Court, FCT, Abuja.

(7) Ogbonnaya Onu: PhD (Ivy League University, California). Lectured in the University of Port Harcourt.

( Kemi Adeosun: Msc (University of East London). She was Senior Manager at the PriceWaterCooperHouse (PWC) in London.

(9) Ibe Kachikwu: LLM (Harvard). He was Executive Vice Chairman ExxonMobil, General Counsel of Texaco Upstream and Downstream, Nigeria.

(10) Audu Ogbeh: Msc (University of Toulouse, France). Lectured at the Institute of Education, ABU, Zaria. He headed the Department of Humanities, Murtala College of Arts, Science and Technology.

(11) Hadi Sirika is a trained pilot.

(12) Udoma Udo Udoma: LLM (St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford). He was Chairman, UAC of Nigeria, Chairman Corporate Affairs Commission, Chairman Security and Exchange Commission.

(13) Ahmed Musa Ibeto: Director of Protocol, Government House, Minna.

(14) Solomon Dalong: LLM (Unijos). He worked in the Nigerian Prisons Service. He lectured in Unijos.

(15) Lai Muhammed: LLB. Co-founder of Edun & Muhammed Chambers. He was a businessman. He served as Chairman of Optmedia Limited, Director of Afromedia PLC. Fellow of the NIPR. He worked in FAAN for 10 years.

(16) Osagie Ehanire: PhD (Ludwig Maxmillian University, Munich). Senior Registrar, Clinical Instructor, Uniben Teaching Hospital and Edo State Hospital Management Board and Consultant Surgeon, Shell PDC of Nigeria.

(17) Amina J. Muhammed: Founded Afri-Projects Consortium. Between 1981 to 1991, she worked in Archon Nigeria in association with Norman and Dawburn, UK. UN Secretary-General Special Advicer on the Post-2015 Development Planning. CEO and founder of Centre for Development Policy Solutions.

(18) Adebayo Shittu: LLB. He is a successful lawyer.

(19) Abubakar Malami: LLB. He is a SAN, having practised as a lawyer.

(20) Ibrahim Usman Jibril: Was a staff of Abuja Geological Information Service (AGIS). He works in the Nassarawa Geological Information Service (NAGIS).

(21) Suleiman Hassan: Bsc (University of Reading, UK). Principal Consultant of the Afri-Projects Consortium (APC) between 1995-1999. Managing Director of Integrated Engineering Associates (IEA).