See Second Batch Ministerial Nominees Who Have Connections to the Presidency (List+Photos)

 

Some of the nominees on the second ministerial list have beem closely linked with the president.

 

See the list below...

 

1.Although  Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed is known as Nasir El-Rufai’s “niece”, she  is Yahaya Hamza’s daughter who was El-Rufai’s foster father. Both Naisr El-Rufai and Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed are 55 years old, but she calls him her “uncle”.

 

 

 

2. Anthony Anwuka, the former secretary to the Imo state government, has close family ties with Rochas Okorocha, the current Imo governor.

 

 

3. Okechukwu “Okey” Enelamah, who is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of African Capital Alliance (ACA), the leading independent private equity firm investing in West Africa, comes from a family of pastors. Enelamah is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He has close ties with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

 

4. Aisha Abubakar is the daughter of Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, the former finance minister, who also once served as the high commissioner to the UK. During the military era he was one of the most significant figures in Sokoto’s elite.

 

5. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, professor of gynaecology and obstetrics, nominated by Muhammadu Buhari for the ministerial position in 2015, is said to be connected to Muhammadu Buhari in a very interesting way. Isaac Adewole was one of the leaders of a nationwide doctors’ strike against Buhari, who, in his turn, sacked him from the post of the president of the national association of resident doctors of Nigeria.