President Buhari had at various times promised to name his cabinet in September, and from all indications, the deadline might be met. Reports reached us that President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted names of his
ministerial nominees to the Senate, presidency sources reported.
Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly
Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, submitted the names to the upper chamber
yesterday, the sources said on condition of anonymity. Nigerians have been
waiting since May 29 for Buhari to appoint his ministers, but the President had
asked them to be patient saying he needed time to assemble the best people into
the ministerial positions.
Many Senators contacted yesterday about the nominees said
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).
“Whatever the case, everything will be clear as the Senate resumes sitting today,” the source said.
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