I just came across a post and I saw a new name for foreign affairs ministry and I could not believe Odein Ajumogobia didn't make it back to the Ministry or even get a ministerial slot. This is disapointing. Why do you exchange competence with incompetence. This was Jonathan that talked about having his ministers maintain their ministries for consistency and the ONLY [/b]man that was good at during his time was dropped for a corrupt individual because of politics.
Lets all agree that Nigeria [b]WILL NEVER be better if we continue at this spate as we have continued on. SMH.
I went on further research online and after reading this below I gave up my enthusiasm for this administration.
I never cared about Jonathan and the rest (because I only care about making my money jeje) but this shows that Jonathan is not Nigeria's solution especially with all those old recycled, clueless Ministers (save few) he has on. I rest my case. The failure goes on.

Rogue Jonathan Administration Appoints A Rogue Minister”–Reports

New York [RR] ABUJA–RepublicReport reported two months ago, that prior to PDP-Primary Convention at Eagle Square, FCT-Abuja credible sources disclosed to us that about 7billion dollar was hastily withdrawn from Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) Excess Oil Reserve Account and distributed amongst Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Stalwarts and stakeholders in the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, thereafter, more funds have exchanged hands after purported victory on April 16, 2011 presidential elections.
Curiously, the corrupt Jonathan administration has continued to abysmally display incompetence in the appointment of able qualified Ministers (with exception of few), just as incompetent  Economic And Finance Crime Commission (EFCC) led by Mrs. Farida Waziri and her Consultant has continued to show. Recently, RepublicReport has learned that the President has just appointed a corrupt Minister in person of Nyesom Nwike as minister.

Competent sources disclosed to RepublicReport New York that Mr. Nwike as a Minister shows that Jonathan administration is plagued by corruption mentality without shame. According to several sources Mr. Nyesom Nwike is currently on EFCC’s bail; he was charged for Stealing N4.7 Billion of Rivers State Government funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in October 2008.
Odein Ajumogobia, SAN – representing Rivers State – was Foreign Minister, until Monday, 30 May 2011, when President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the Federal Executive Council, sacking all the ministers, special advisers and other aides.

“In addition to being an outstanding public servant who handled his official duties in an intelligent, cultured and disciplined manner, a colleague in the Office that happened to know Mr Ajumogobia personally told me he is exceedingly pleasant. Many Nigerians and foreigners sang his praises and they regarded him as the best Foreign Minister this country has ever had, But Goodluck Jonathan did not deem it fit to reappoint him.

Nevertheless, other sources said, Mr.Jonathan in attempt to juggle many challenges that face his administration, which, include Boko Haram, had many reasons why he did not re-appoint Mr. Ajumogobia as Foreign Affairs Minister.

“And I’m sure that Jonathan, who is under a lot of pressure and has to juggle the competing desires of many different and powerful interest groups, had his reasons for not retaining Ajumogobia”.
Before his appointment, Mr. Wike, was the Rivers nominee to replace ex-foreign Affairs Minister, Ajumogobia, and now ex-Chief of Staff to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Director -General of his re-election campaign. Wike’s nomination is the culmination of nigh wire politics that saw the initial nominee withdrawn from the Ministerial list.

Sources said, ‘The president had written the Senate informing them of his decision to withdraw the nomination of Tonye Cole, who was supposed to represent Rivers State in the cabinet. Mr Cole is the managing director of Sahara Energy Resource Limited, a company he founded in 1996 with his friends, Tope Shonubi and Ade Odunsi. He is considered an oil and gas expert amongst the 34-man list of ministerial nominees the president forwarded to the Senate for confirmation last week. The reason for Mr Cole’s withdrawal was not given by the president’s letter.
Mr Cole’s withdrawal is, however, believed to be on the orders of local politicians from his state, who had criticized his inclusion and have been campaigning for a replacement.
Other sources said, President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly promised Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi of two Ministerial slots. When eventually Jonathan turned around and said Rivers now have only one slot, Governor Amaechi insisted on the withdrawal of Tonye Cole and having his Special Assistant for the job.
Curiously, Mr. Nyesom Wike’s profile is not something to write home about. RepublicReport.com gathered that Mr. Wike was Rivers State Chief of Staff charged for Stealing N4.7 Billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in October 2008.
On Thursday, 9th October, 2008, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Mr. Nyeson Wike, the then Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Governor, with various counts of stealing N4.67 billion from the state’s coffers.
Wike was arraigned before Justice Abimbola Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gudu area of Abuja, charged with six counts of stealing, abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds.
The first count accuses Mr. Wike of stealing N129 million, the second involves stealing N41.9 million, a third count accuses him of stealing N100 million, while the sixth count states that he pilfered N3.5 billion naira.
EFCC officials arrested and detained Mr. Wike after he showed up at the agency’s offices accompanied by the secretary to the state government, Magnum Abbe. Mr. Abbe was also detained, but was later released on bail pending further investigations by the agency regarding financial scams perpetrated by state government officials using a state account domiciled with Zenith Bank in Port Harcourt.

Sources told RepublicReport that Jonathan’s family is not clean either, his wife, Nigerian First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan is equally being investigated for fraud by EFCC, on the tone of 15Million dollars loot but has been muted since Jonathan became Acting President to Substantive president and now elected President of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In addition, the charges against Mr. Wike reveal that N4.67 billion went through his personal bank account at Zenith Bank. A senior EFCC official told journalists the agency suspects that the funds were laundered by the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, through Wike’s account.
All these happening at a time Mr. Jonathan alleged he is fighting corruption in the country. Nigerians and pundits have become apprehensive about Jonathan administration claims with all these allegations flying left and right against him and his cohorts. “Our president said he wants to fight corruption yet wants to work with politicians who are perceived as corrupt by the people. So said Mohammed Salihu in his ‘Is our president double-faced’?
Sources said, the case against Wike originated from two petitions from amorphous groups. One of the “‘League of Democrats” in its petition drew the attention of the EFCC to the arrest of Governor Amaechi when he was speaker in December 2006, asking that the case be re-opened.
A second petition was circulated in which Wike was alleged to have laundered more than three billion Naira. According to the report, “the chief of staff in connivance with an official of a new generation bank opened one of the accounts No. 6010916587 on March 27, 2008, with the fictitious name, ‘Harrison B. Princewill,’ adding that the account was being run by Wike.
The report said that when the account was opened, the account holder did not provide passport photographs and information about the next of kin of Harrison B. Princewill. Just about the same time another account directly controlled by Wike in the same branch of the bank with No. 602500949 began to witness huge turnover such that between June 5, and July 3, 2008, N233 million passed into it. “On September 5, 2008, at exactly 3.30pm, Wike withdrew the sum of N300 million from his account and promptly disappeared into thin air,” the report revealed.
Following these allegations, The EFCC arrested some key government officials in the state for corruption.
Magnus Abe, the secretary to the state government, SSG, and Nyesom Wike, chief of staff, COS, to the state governor, both of them lawyers, were detained by the anti-graft agency. But Abe was later released October 8, while Wike remained behind bars.
Also invited by the EFCC were Osimaka ThankGod Izoedu, the finance commissioner and Zida Famor, the accountant general, AG.
Wike, who is the former chairman of Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of the state and national president of the Association of Local Government Council chairmen, ALGON, was discovered to have over N120 million in his private account.
The EFCC was said to have constituted a crack team of investigators to question the governor over the N120 million which Wike, his chief of staff, claimed in his statement released to him for a building project.
In his statement at the EFCC, Wike denied the allegations of converting his personal account to that of the state government account and that he was building a N150m personal mansion in Port Harcourt.
Reports alleged that Mr. Wike claimed that Amaechi, his boss, approved the release of N100million for the building of a staff quarter, meant for the chief of general staff, and for which construction work is still ongoing. Additional petition against Mr. Wike purported that account was used as proxy account to the Government House account, sources say at Zenth Bank and other banks.

Ironically, the level of incompetence at EFCC mocks the whole exercise at fighting corruption, sources said, that EFCC investigations and prosecution, are usually marred without thorough investigations before it runs to an online press campaign of calumny; EFCC has shown miscalculation in its arrest and arraignment of alleged corrupt individuals; the question yet to be answered is whether Governor Amaechi approved the release of N120million to Wike and if so, what was the purpose?

Pundits are asking , 120Million Naira is humongous and wondered whether Rotimi Amaechi approved this whopping figure to Wike to build his personal house, or was it meant for the construction of staff quarters. “There is also the question of whether it is possible for a private account to be converted into a government account by an individual who is not even a signatory to the said government account.
Without providing the answer to these questions, Amaechi said his administration is not corrupt and blamed the entire saga on political opponents. The state government also headed for the courts to challenge EFCC’s action. Prince L.O. Fagbemi, SAN, and Ricky Tarfa, SAN, lead two other lawyers for the Rivers state government.

For record, it mus be recalled that around the period under investigation, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) also investigated the Rivers State House of Assembly, inviting the legislators in FCT-Abuja to explain how they spent their constituency project allowance approved for them by Amaechi that year.
Following presentations made to him by the speaker, Amaechi approved the release of over three billion Naira to the 32 legislators in the assembly for execution of constituency projects in their various constituencies in the state. Each of the lawmakers went home with between N100 million and N105 million. But Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja, then immediate past chief whip of the house, representing Opobo/Nkoro constituency, refused to partake in the deal. Rather he was said to have petitioned the ICPC over the alleged fraud.
Last week the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Rivers State Chapter condemned the submission of the name of Mr Nyesom Wike, to the National Assembly as the ministerial nominee for Rivers State.
A statement by the ACN, signed by the Acting Chairman, Chief Esuku Esuku and the Publicity Secretary, Jerry Needam, said the nomination of Nyesom Wike, an Ikwerre-man from the same ethnic nationality with the Governor for ministerial appointment is another insult on the sensibilities of other ethnic nationalities in the state.
The statement chided Gov Amaechi for being myopic and extremely selfish by presuming that no other ethnic group exists in the state, stressing that all the juiciest and important political offices within and outside the state are currently occupied by one ethnic group.

The ACN listed the political offices as that of the executive Governor of Rivers State, the Chief of Staff and well over 100 major positions.
“For Amaechi to go ahead to nominate Nyesom Wike as minister on behalf of the state against all odds including the obvious imbalances of his administration simply suggests greater surprise packages coming for the already beleaguered Rivers people,” the statement noted.
RepublicReport gathered that “ACN maintained that the only way Amaechi can reassure that he means well for the majority of Rivers people is the immediate withdrawal of Mr Nyesom Wike as the state’s ministerial nominee for lack of mass appeal and support, warning that not heeding the call will engender mass protest by other ethnic nationalities in the state.
Rivers State ACN leadership vehemently added, that: “it’s gross injustice, lack of vision and goodwill, faulty political calculation and direct affront on the people of Rivers to create the impression that all the Treasure Base of the nation can afford is the like of Nyesom Wike in the face of overwhelming surge of qualified and internationally acclaimed intellectuals in other ethnic nationalities in the state.”
“The party said it is another test of the patriotic spirit of the Amaechi-led government vis-à-vis his self-acclaimed transparent management of state resources, human and material.

It must be remembered that Militant groups like MEND, MASSOB, OPC, and Boko Haram are exploiting visionless and clueless money sharing Jonathan administration, sources disclosed to RepublicReport New York; how this plays-out is yet to be seen. RepublicReport is monitoring these developments. 

Another commentator on Nigerian politics who declined to give his name said, “Rogue Jonathan administration can only appoint a rogue Minister, thereby displaying his incompetence in national issues that include, colossal insecurity and dysfunctional society at best. Other sources say that he is always consulting Otta Farm, Inc, that belongs to another corrupt former President Olusegun Obasanjo for counseling using different emissaries on how to steer the political-ship of the country forward amidst increasing chaotic present.

http://www.republicreport.com/rogue-jonathan-administration-appoints-a-rogue-minister-reports/

I believe that Ajumogobia will be back.

Ask oga jonathan,i hope this man doesn't fumble,i dey watch.

He is been nominated for a position as Nigeria's representative at the UN.