Buhari sends 43 ministerial nominees to Senate …As Fashola, Saraki, Aregbesola, Ngige, Amaechi make list

President Muhammadu Buhari has at last sent a list of 43 ministerial nominees to the Senate, Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber.
The President, who was elected for the first time in May 2015, was reelected February 23, 2019 and officially sworn in on May 29, 2019.
The 43 ministerial nominees represent one from each of the 36 states of the federation and one each from the six geo-political zones of the country. This is however unlike his first tenure when he appointed only 36 ministers from the 36 states of the federation.
Prominent on the list are younger sister of immediate past Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; Gbemi Saraki, spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo SAN, immediate past governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, former Ministers of Works and Housing, Power and Transport, Babatunde Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi, respectively as well as Labour and Science counterparts, Dr. Chris Ngige and Chief Ogbonnaya Onu as well as former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, among several others.
Business and Transport gathered that the list was sent to the Senate Monday evening through an executive communication and is expected to have been read on the floor of the Senate today, Tuesday, July 23, 2019.
The senate, which will be proceeding on a two-month recess from Thursday, is therefore expected to screen and confirm the nominees before embarking on the recess, an indication that it has just two days to do that.
Details of the list show that a total of t 12 ministers from the former cabinet made the new list. This is however contrary to earlier speculations that most of the former ministers would be reappointed.
It was also gathered that the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan has already read the full list on the floor of the house during plenary today.
The comprehensive list is as follows:
Ikechukwu Oga- Abia
Mohammed Musa Bello-Adamawa
Godswill Akpabio- Akwa Ibom
Chris Ngige- Anambra
Sharon Ikeazor -Anambra
Adamu Adamu -Bauchi
Maryam Katagum -Bauchi
Timipre Sylva -Bayelsa
George Akume -Benue
Mustapha Baba Shehuri -Borno
Goddy Agba -Cross Rivers
Festus Keyamo -Delta
Ogbonnaya Onu -Ebonyi
Osagie Enakhire -Edo
Clement Agba -Edo
Adeniyi Adebayo -Ekiti
Geofrey Onyeama -Enugu
Ali Issa Fantami -Gombe
Emeka Nwajiuba -Imo
Suleiman Adamu -Jigawa
Zainab Ahmed -Kaduna
Mohammed Mahmoud -Kaduna
Sabo Nanunu -Kano
Bashir Salihi Magashi -Kano
Hadi Sirika -Katsina
Abubakar Malami -Kebbi
Ahmadu Tijani -Kogi
Lai Mohammed -Kwara
Gbemisola Saraki-Kwara
Babatunde Raji Fashola -Lagos
Oloronimbe Momora -Lagos
Muhammed Abdullahi Nasarawa
Zubeira Dada -Niger
Olamilekan Adegbite -Ogun
Tayo Alasoadura -Ondo
Rauf Aregbesola -Osun
Sunday Dare -Oyo
Pauline Tallen -Plateau
Rotimi Amaechi -Rivers
Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi -Sokoto
Saleh Mohammed -Taraba
Abubakar Aliyu -Yobe
Sadiya Umar Farouk -Zamfara
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