President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Assembly Adviser, Senator Ita Enang personally handed over the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki yesterday, New Punch has learnt.
Saraki is expected to read out the list to his colleagues at plenary today.
The delay had drawn a lot of criticism and endless speculations among Nigerians.
Many Senators contacted yesterday about the nominees told Daily Trust they would prefer not to comment since they did not know the content of the message delivered by Senator Enang.
But sources suggested yesterday that those likely to make it into Buhari’s cabinet are those that have been seen regularly with him in recent weeks, either in Nigeria or on his foreign trips.
“Going by that postulation,’ the sources said, “one can safely say that former Ekiti state governor Kayode Fayemi would make it.”
One of our sources said those who could make it are former Chief of Army Staff, Abdurrahman Dambazau, former CBN governor Charles Soludo, and three former governors from the south.
A former House of Representatives member, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, are among those believed to be included in the list of nominees. Oyinlola was said to have been nominated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was a former national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who later decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Buhari also sought the approval of Babatunde Fowler as the new Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Ahmed Lawan Kuru as Executive Director , Asset Management Cooperation of Nigeria, AMCON, Kola Ayeye, Eberechukwu Uneze and Aminu Ismail as Directors and Moru Danbata as Vice-Chairman of Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC.
Prof. Tam David West
Femi Falana (SAN)
Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazu (rtd)
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola
Wale Edun
Abubakar Malami (SAN).
Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okaru
Chief Bode Mustapha
Dr Kayode Fayemi
Dr. Abba Ruma
Chief Kanu Agabi
Donald Duke
Babatunde Raji Fashola
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
Rotimi Akeredolu
Oby Ezekwesili
Festus Odimegwu
Engineer Funsho Kupolokun
Yinka Folashade Oredola
Bisola Adegbenro
Isaiah Danjuma (son of TY Danjuma)
Dele Momodu
Kehinde Lawanson
Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN)
Pat Utomi
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