Osinbajo, El-rufai, Oshiomhole Playing Key Roles In Ministerial Appointments
Saturday Vanguard has reliably gathered that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai and the National Chairman of All
Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole are currently
playing key roles in the selection of ministerial nominees to ensure that
competent party members are appointed.
It was gathered that the three strong men have the ears of President
Muhammadu Buhari in his determination to appoint people, who would truly
deliver in their respective portfolios. “But he (the President) is doing that
separately and not as a team, so each of them may not know what the other
is suggesting,” a source close to the Presidency said.
Multiple sources told Saturday Vanguard that the President was not only
concentrating on competent party members but also on credible people in
the private sector, who would drive the implementation of pro-people
policies to be formulated.
One of the sources said the trio has identified some party members among
who are the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-
Usman, immediate past Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, former
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, ex-Minister
of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, among others.
The source said: “President Muhammadu Buhari is considering merit this
time because he wants results from his ministers. That was why he is
listening to the Vice President, APC party chairman, and Governor Nasir El-
rufai to assist in choosing competent hands among party members and from
the private sector. He does not want noise makers but those who can do the
job. The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman and Rotimi Amaechi
may make the list because they possess the qualities needed. Another
person is Fashola.”
Saturday Vanguard had reported that unlike the usual practice of placing
party and other considerations above merit in the appointment of ministers,
President Buhari’s cabinet members could emerge strictly on competence.
The development was informed by the perception of underperformance by
most of the immediate past ministers, especially heads of key ministries, and
in-fighting among junior and senior ministers which characterised the
activities of the ministers.
These resulted in the absence of synergy that could have emanated from
interministerial interface.
The situation informed sustained calls from the public for the rejigging of the
cabinet and even outright sack of some ministers.
Such calls were not heeded by Buhari, who only witnessed the resignation of
five ministers and the death of one.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba Ibrahim, had resigned
on February 16, 2019, to run for an elective office in Damaturu/Tarmuwa/
Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency of Yobe State.
Alhaji Ibrahim Jubiril also resigned his appointment as Minister of State for
Environment following his declaration as an Emir.
Hajiya Amina Mohammed, on February 24, 2017, resigned as Minister of
Environment following her appointment at the United Nations as Deputy
Secretary-General.
The incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi also resigned on May
30, 2018, to contest for the governorship position of his state.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan,
also known as Mama Taraba, resigned from the cabinet and from the APC,
hinging her resignation on her disqualification in the screening for the 2019
Taraba State governorship election by the party’s National Working
Committee.
In September 2018, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun resigned as the Minister of Finance
as a result of allegations that she falsified her National Youth Service Corps,
NYSC, Exemption Certificate.
In March 2016, Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James
Ocholi ,SAN, died in a road crash that occurred at Kilometre 57, along
Kaduna-Abuja highway.
Some ministers gave a bad face to the President’s anti-corruption fight. But
they survived. There were ministers who were even so petty that they
applied and collected estacodes of aides for trips the aides never made.
There were some who collected full estacodes and paid their aides half or
even less. One aide even went public with corrupt activities in his ministry.
There were also some the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC
simply failed to investigate allegations brought against them. They all
survived a Buhari administration that allowed the ministers so much freedom
and didn’t do enough to monitor them.
All that, we gathered, may change in this second coming they have tagged
The Next Level even as some ministers may be retained while some may be
re-assigned to other ministries.
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai and the National Chairman of All
Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole are currently
playing key roles in the selection of ministerial nominees to ensure that
competent party members are appointed.
It was gathered that the three strong men have the ears of President
Muhammadu Buhari in his determination to appoint people, who would truly
deliver in their respective portfolios. “But he (the President) is doing that
separately and not as a team, so each of them may not know what the other
is suggesting,” a source close to the Presidency said.
Multiple sources told Saturday Vanguard that the President was not only
concentrating on competent party members but also on credible people in
the private sector, who would drive the implementation of pro-people
policies to be formulated.
One of the sources said the trio has identified some party members among
who are the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-
Usman, immediate past Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, former
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, ex-Minister
of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, among others.
The source said: “President Muhammadu Buhari is considering merit this
time because he wants results from his ministers. That was why he is
listening to the Vice President, APC party chairman, and Governor Nasir El-
rufai to assist in choosing competent hands among party members and from
the private sector. He does not want noise makers but those who can do the
job. The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman and Rotimi Amaechi
may make the list because they possess the qualities needed. Another
person is Fashola.”
Saturday Vanguard had reported that unlike the usual practice of placing
party and other considerations above merit in the appointment of ministers,
President Buhari’s cabinet members could emerge strictly on competence.
The development was informed by the perception of underperformance by
most of the immediate past ministers, especially heads of key ministries, and
in-fighting among junior and senior ministers which characterised the
activities of the ministers.
These resulted in the absence of synergy that could have emanated from
interministerial interface.
The situation informed sustained calls from the public for the rejigging of the
cabinet and even outright sack of some ministers.
Such calls were not heeded by Buhari, who only witnessed the resignation of
five ministers and the death of one.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba Ibrahim, had resigned
on February 16, 2019, to run for an elective office in Damaturu/Tarmuwa/
Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency of Yobe State.
Alhaji Ibrahim Jubiril also resigned his appointment as Minister of State for
Environment following his declaration as an Emir.
Hajiya Amina Mohammed, on February 24, 2017, resigned as Minister of
Environment following her appointment at the United Nations as Deputy
Secretary-General.
The incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi also resigned on May
30, 2018, to contest for the governorship position of his state.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan,
also known as Mama Taraba, resigned from the cabinet and from the APC,
hinging her resignation on her disqualification in the screening for the 2019
Taraba State governorship election by the party’s National Working
Committee.
In September 2018, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun resigned as the Minister of Finance
as a result of allegations that she falsified her National Youth Service Corps,
NYSC, Exemption Certificate.
In March 2016, Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James
Ocholi ,SAN, died in a road crash that occurred at Kilometre 57, along
Kaduna-Abuja highway.
Some ministers gave a bad face to the President’s anti-corruption fight. But
they survived. There were ministers who were even so petty that they
applied and collected estacodes of aides for trips the aides never made.
There were some who collected full estacodes and paid their aides half or
even less. One aide even went public with corrupt activities in his ministry.
There were also some the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC
simply failed to investigate allegations brought against them. They all
survived a Buhari administration that allowed the ministers so much freedom
and didn’t do enough to monitor them.
All that, we gathered, may change in this second coming they have tagged
The Next Level even as some ministers may be retained while some may be
re-assigned to other ministries.
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