Fashola, Amaechi, Onu, Ngige in list of Buhari’s 43 ministerial nominees

Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu and Chris Ngige are some of the first term ministers President Muhammadu Buhari is proposing to return as ministers for the second term of his government.

A 43-strong list of persons read on the floor of the senate by Ahmed Lawan, the president of the the senate, is as follows:

Ikechukwu Oga (Abia)
Mohammed Musa Bello (Adamawa)
Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom)
Chris Ngige (Anambra)
Sharon Ikeazu (Anambra)
Adamu Adamu (Bauchi)
Maryam Katagum (Bauchi)
Timi Sylva (Bayelsa)
George Akume (Benue)
Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno)
Goddy Agba (Cross Rivers)
Festus Keyamo (Delta)
Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)
Osagie Enakhire (Edo)
Clement Agba (Edo)
Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti)
Geofrey Onyeama (Enugu)
Ali Issa Fantami (Gombe)
Emeka Nwajiuba (Imo)
Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa)
Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna)
Mohammed Mahmoud (Kaduna)
Sabo Nanunu (Kano)
Bashir Salihi Magashi (Kano)
Hadi Sirika (Katsina)
Abubakar Malami (Kebbi)
Ahmadu Tijani (Kogi)
Lai Mohammed (Kwara)
Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara)
Raji Fashola (Lagos)
Nimbe Momora (Lagos)
Muhammed Abdullahi (Nasarawa)
Zubeira Dada (Niger)
Olamilekan Adegbite (Ogun)
Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo)
Rauf Aregbesola (Osun)
Sunday Dare (Oyo)
Pauline Tallen (Plateau)
Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)
Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi (Sokoto)
Saleh Mohammed (Taraba)
Abubakar Aliyu (Yobe)
Sadiya Umar Farouk (Zamfara)

The list is said to contain 43 nominees, one each for Nigeria’s 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, as well as one each for the six geopolitical zones

The list was sent via an executive letter to the legislature arm of government overnight for confirmation.

President Buhari had earlier spoken of being under pressure on compiling the list, but effectively said he would only work with people he personally knows unlike the first term when he picked people based on recommendations.

The Nigerian economy has taken a backseat since the elections finished in March and expectations were high that the president would make haste in appointing his ministers this term unlike the six months he took to do so in the first term.