According to a new source, the immediate past governors of Kaduna and Rivers states, Nasir El-Rufai and Nyesom Wike, have been added to President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list.
The Vanguard story, the president will do so today. Barring any last-minute changes, forward the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation on Thursday, July 27.
The Nation, President Tinubu forwarded the list to Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Thursday morning, in accordance with the constitutional requirement that the list be submitted to the National Assembly within 60 days of the presidential inauguration.
Others in Tinubu’s ministerial list, according to the report, are:
- Dele Alake, current Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, to the president
- Adegboyega Oyetola, former governor of Osun state
- Wale Edun
- Adebayo Adelabu, former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
- Beta Edu, former Commissioner for Health in Cross River State and National Woman Leader of APC
- Senator Tokunbo Abiru, lawmaker representing Lagos East senatorial district
- Lateef Fagbemi, SAN
- Ali Pate, Harvard professor of medicine and former Minister of State (Health)