Mixed reactions has continued to trail the release of names of ministerial nominees forwarded to the senate with a PDP senator mocking President Mohammadu Buhari saying, “We thought he will pick saints”
Speaking to Channels Television shortly after Senate President Bukola Saraki read out the names at plenary, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), said, “We have taken so long to have ministers and when the list came out, we found nothing special. These are names known to Nigerians.
“We have seen the names. I don’t knowwhat to say because we were expecting saints”
However APC law maker, Senator Ajayi Boroffice disagreed with his PDP counterpart describing the nomiees as “the best 11 of the country”
The names of the Ministerial nominees submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari include;
1. Dr. Chris Ngige – Fmr. Governor of Anambra State
2. Dr. Kayode Fayemi – Fmr. Governor of Ekiti State
3. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi – Fmr. Governor of Rivers State
4. Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN – Fmr. Governor of Lagos State
5. Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau (Rtd.) – Fmr. Chief of Defence Staff
6. Hajiya Aisha Alhassan – Fmr. Federal Lawmakers and Governorship Candidate
7. Dr. Ogbonaya Onu – Fmr. Governor of Abia State and Fmr. National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (which is part of the ruling All Progressive Congress)
8. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun – Fmr. Commissioner for Finance in Ogun State (South West Nigeria)
9. Alh. Abubakar Malami – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria
10. Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu – Group Managing Director, NNPC
11. Chief Audu Ogbeh – Fmr. Minister of Agricultural and Fmr. National Chairman of PDP
12. Sen. Hadi Sidika – Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
13. Ibrahim Usman Jibril,
14. Udoma Udoh Udoma – Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
15. Ahmen Musa
16. Alh. Lai Mohammed – Nat. Publicity Secretary of APC
17. Suleiman Adamu
18. Chief Adebayo Shittu
19. Barr. Solomon Dalong – A Legal Practitioner
20. Missus Amina Ibrahim – Special Adviser to the United Nation’s Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.
21. Osagie Ehanire.
Senate President, Sen. BukolaSaraki announced that the Screening of Ministerial Nominees on the List will commence on Tuesday October 13, 2015.
Minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio raised a Point of Order on the need for the list of the Nominees to cover all States of the Federation. This was greeted with reactions from the law makers.
