Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, who revealed this on Sunday in an interview with Channels Television, also said that the president is conscious of fair representation with respect to women and youths in the ministerial list.

“He is not going to be designated as Minister but will supervise the Ministry. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo while in office supervised that ministry for six years, was he called a petroleum minister? No, he was not,” Adesina said.

“The president is going to supervise and maybe, he would have minister of state to work along with him. I dare say, he has all it takes to supervise that ministry having been oil minister for three and half years in the past.

“President Buhari would respect the constitution. And the constitution says ministers must be appointed from each state and that means there must be minimum of 36 ministers. He would respect that.

“The president had said when the governors were appointing commissioners in their states, he never interfered, so he didn’t expect them to interfere in the choice of his ministers.

“That was the original position and then later, he came back to say when he had his list ready that he was going to run it by the governors, that is the position. I guess there must have been some consultations but it does not mean that the position of any government will be sacrosanct on the nominee.”

Adesina added that the age of the ministerial nominees does not matter to the president, saying: “These people who have been nominated are qualified and are Nigerians. Talking of age, there is a saying that ‘age does not matter. It does not mind, if you don’t mind it.’ I don’t think that age is an issue.

“And talking of age, you should rather talk about mental and chronological age. If you have a chronological age of 30, which makes you a youth, and mental age is not at par, what do we gain? Nothing.

“And you may have a chronological age of 68, which is the age of the oldest of the nominees; if that nominee now has a mental age of 15 or 20, what do we gain? We must rather talk of the mental age rather than the chronological age. It is not the chronological age that matters as long as that person has what he is bringing to the table.”

“God himself is ageless, so you can’t be talking of whether someone is old or not.”

Speaking on the women representation, Adesina suggested that the 15 names expected can be mainly for women.

“Talking about women, yes, three women on this list, 15 yet to come. If all the 15 are now women, what would you have to say? Just be sure that the president is mindful of fair representation in the country and he will do what is needful.




https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-wont-petroleum-minister-says-adesina

Ok

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2951117_20151011135848_jpeg7d93ed033ccb60240e05a1d78e976402

[size=13pt]Ministerial List: President Buhari appoints self as Petroleum Minister[/size]

Lagos (AFP) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to take personal charge of the country’s crucial oil portfolio, his spokesman said on Tuesday, as a deadline loomed for him to finally nominate his cabinet.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/ministerial-list-president-buhari-appoints-self-as-petroleum-minister/

Confused man

I belong to northerners, and i belong to nobody.

“And talking of age, you should rather talk about mental and chronological age. If you have a chronological age of 30, which makes you a youth, and mental age is not at par, what do we gain? Nothing.

“And you may have a chronological age of 68, which is the age of the oldest of the nominees; if that nominee now has a mental age of 15 or 20, what do we gain? We must rather talk of the mental age rather than the chronological age. It is not the chronological age that matters as long as that person has what he is bringing to the table.”

“God himself is ageless, so you can’t be talking of whether someone is old or not.”

[size=15pt]Dear Mr. Adesina sir, I put it to you that you are talking gibberish.. yes, gibberish! [/size]

Hahahahahahaha.

President is indeed conscious of fair representation of women

I don't know how to correlate his lies with his Foursquare church membership

Power must always change a personality!!

Let him do his job though........

If he like he should be finance minister

He has seen he can still put some one and still chop money

*in knee's voice*
After the Change accounts go change
Go change go change

This party called APC are just so confused. They were never here to rule Nigeria.


In new York Buhari clearly stated he will be minister. Now he would supervise the ministry. This Femi is a clown, he should stop speaking on behalf of the president. In short the whole APC are clowns

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So where is the change
Make we use Google map to look for am since Baba One Chance has NOT delivered on any of his change promises, including not paying fuel subsidy or stabilising oil price.

Government of foools!!! for foools! by foools!!!

Who go come be main minister?

abeg no vex,who dey sell fuel for here?MEANWHILE rockin' my TTC(thirteenth to comm')

Iyamiii!

Same way we don't have office of the first lady but wife of the president of Nigeria.


Who's fooling who? ??

Lie Mohammed......... The APC has a well oiled propaganda machinery.... The way they churn out factory fitted LIES is very alarming. Nigerians are on a long thing....

Must he do all the things previous Government before him did? Didn't he promise us change?

Anything but cleansing the rot in the petroleum industry is allowed

You, I make u the minister of FP

Lincoln275:
Who go come be main minister?

Hmmm


in other news,order your football jerseys
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we dey watch dem

K

Pls our youth is it not time we show these people that NIGERIA is also for us abi they use juju hold us.
In this country the youth are just like spectators (our only na to sit don the watch) What is this.
just take your time and check the kind of recycling of leaders that has be going on in this country
since ages.

Mister president with all due respect your ministerial list has show that the youth of this country under
your administration has no future or hope.
these are former Governors, former Ministers, former this former that(the worst is that none of them
has a clean record of corrupt practice) in a country that can boost of over 170 million people and almost
75% them are youth(out of this 75%, almost 70% are jobless) and we still uncomfortable spectating. This is
outrageous, shocking, disgraceful, scandalous, atrocious, appalling, abhorrent, monstrous and heinous.
I cry for the Nigerian youths!!

And now here is a president that promised to bring CHANGE(APC) still trying to repeat what OBASANJO(PDP)
did some years back that did not bring growth but backwardness to this nation.PMB where is your ideology
APC where is the CHANGE you promised NIGERIANS

kk we don hear

Jonathan even supervised the Power Ministry around 2010.

enough of all this lies joooo

S okay...

same thing

where is the ChAnGe ?

Keep on dreaming for change


Buhari is a scam

playtheblues:
Must he do all the things previous Government before him did? Didn't he promise us change?

playtheblues:
Must he do all the things previous Government before him did? Didn't he promise us change?

and u believed??