With 47 nominees, Tinubu sets new record for highest number of ‘ministers’ since ’99

Adebari Oguntoye
Adebari Oguntoye
Tinubu-Shettima-Inauguration

President Bola Tinubu has set the record for the highest number of ministerial nominees in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic (1999 to date).

This is five ministerial nominees more than the 42 appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

A week ago, Tinubu nominated 28 people to be cleared by the senate to be ministers in his cabinet. On Wednesday, the president sent another list of 19 other people, making a total of 47 cabinet members.

In his first coming, President Muhammadu Buhari named 36 ministers, and 42 ministers during his second term.

Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 named 33 nominees to be ministers in his cabinet — including nine people from the Umar Yar’Adua administration.

In 2007, Yar’Adua named a 39-member cabinet, which included 32 men and seven women.

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo initially named 42 ministers in 1999 but reviewed his cabinet to reduce the number of ministries and ministers to 27 and 40, respectively, before he left office in 2007.

Tinubu has now gone beyond Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan to name 47 ministers at one go — setting a new record in the country’s 24-year return to democracy.

HERE IS A LIST OF TINUBU’S 47 MINISTERIAL NOMINEES:

S/N

NAMES

STATE

GENDER

1Abubakar MomohEdoMale
2Yusuf Maitama TuggarBauchiMale
3Ahmad DangiwaKatsinaMale
4Hanatu MusawaKastinaFemale
5Uche NnajiEnuguMale
6Betta EduCross RiverFemale
7Doris UzokaImoFemale
8David UmahiEbonyiMale
9Nyesom WikeRiversMale
10Mohamed BadaruJigawaMale
11Nasir El-RufaiKadunaMale
12Ekperikpe EkpoAkwa IbomMale
13Nkeiruka OnyejeochaAbiaFemale
14Olubunmi Tunji-OjoOndoMale
15Stella OkoteteDeltaFemale
16Uju OhanenyeAnambraFemale
17Bello Mohammed GoronyoSokotoMale
18Dele AlakeEkitiMale
19Lateef FagbemiKwaraMale
20Mohammed IdrisNigerMale
21Olawale EdunOgunMale
22Adebayo AdelabuOyoMale
23Imaan Sulaiman-IbrahimNasarawaFemale
24Ali PateBauchiMale
25Joseph UtsevBenueMale
26Abubakar KyariBornoMale
27John EnohCross RiverMale
28Sani Abubakar DanladiTarabaMale
29Ahmed Tijani GwarzoKogiMale
30Bosun TijaniOgunMale
31Maryam Shetty (Shettima)KanoFemale
32Ishak SalakoOgunMale
33Tunji AlausaLagosMale
34Tanko SununuKebbiMale
35Adegboyega OyetolaOsunMale
36Atiku BaguduKebbiMale
37Bello MatawalleZamfaraMale
38Ibrahim GeidamYobeMale
39Simon Bako LalongPlateauMale
40Lola Ade-JohnLagosFemale
41Shuaibu AbubakarAdamawaMale
42Tahir MammanAdamawaMale
43Aliyu SabiNigerMale
44Alkali AhmedGombeMale
45Heineken LokpobiriBayelsaMale
46Uba MaigariTarabaMale
47Zephaniah JisaloFCTMale

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