A recent statement by the Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba Socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin has played down the anxiety caused by the delay in the release of President Muhammadu Buhari's ministerial list.
Yinka Odumakin
Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba Socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, yesterday said that President Muhammadu Buhari should have submitted the names of ministerial nominees at Eagle Square on May 29 according to Daily Post.
He said the four months wait had come to nothing as there were no exciting names on the list. Reacting to the speculated names of possible ministers, Odumakin said Buhari did not surprise anyone.
He said: “There is no excitement or surprise in the list. They are mostly run of the mill people that do not warrant waiting four months to have. Those names could have been submitted at Eagles square on May 29.”
Senate President Bukola Saraki had Wednesday received the first 21 nominees to make President Buhari's ministerial list.
Nominees being speculated are 1.Dr. Chris Ngige (Anambra); 2. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); 3. Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); 4. Babatunde Fashola (Lagos); 5. Abdurrahman Dambazau (rtd) (Kano); 6. Aisha AlHassan (Taraba); 7. Ogbonaya Onu (Abia); 8. Kemi Adeosun (Ogun); 9. Abubakar Malami SAN (Kebbi); 10. Senator Sirika Hadi (Katsina).
Others are 11. Barrister Adebayo Shittu (Oyo); 12. Sulaiman Adamu (Jigawa); 13. Solomon Dalong (Plateau); 14.Ibe Kachikwu (Delta); 15. Osagie Ehanire (Edo); 17. Udoma Udo-Udoma (Akwa Ibom); 18. Ahmed Isa Ibeto (Niger); 19. Ibrahim Jibril; 20. Audu Ogbeh (Benue) and 21. Amina Mohammed (Kaduna).