The ministerial nominees list submitted to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday evening contains 21 names, a very reliable source had told our correspondent late on Wednesday night in Abuja.
The list was delivered to Saraki by Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, in company with the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, in a sealed envelope.
Though Saraki, who later spoke to journalists through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said that the list would be read on the floor during plenary Tuesday next week, our correspondent reliably learnt that a former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola; and a former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, made the list.
Also on the list according to the source who passionately pleaded not to be quoted are Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti State; a former Governor of Anambra State, Chris Ngige; and a one-time Governor of Abia State, Ogbonaya Onu.
Malami Abubakar, SAN, a former National Legal Adviser to the defunct Congress for Progressives Change; Aisha Alhassan, a former governorship candidate of the APC in Taraba State; and Amina Mohammed, a special adviser to the Secretary-General of the United nations, Ban Ki-Moon, also made the ministerial list. Same for a former finance commissioner in Ogun State, Kunle Adeosun.
Surprisingly, however, Ibe Kachikwu, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, is also said to be on the list, and according to the source, he is to combine his headship of the NNPC with junior petroleum minister portfolio.
President Buhari has already announced himself as the substantive Minister of Petroleum with a promise to appoint a minister of state for petroleum resources.
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