By Ayo Kehinde
Heading the one-week ultimatum given by the Senate to forward names of ministerial nominees, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally forwarded the list to Senate for confirmation on Tuesday.
There are 43 nominees in all.
On the list announced by Senate President Ahmed Lawan ten are former Ministers in the while six states have two representatives each. The returnee ministers are is Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi and Ogbonnaya Onu, Hadi Sirika, Adamu Adamu, Zainab Ahmed, Mohammed Bello, Abubakar Malami, Chris Ngige, Osagie Ehanire, Geoffrey Onyeama and Lai Mohammed. The states with two nominees are Anambra, Bauchi, Edo, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara and Lagos
LIST OF MINISTERIAL NOMINEES ACCORDING TO THEIR STATES OF ORIGIN:
- Dr Uchechukwu Ogah (Abia)
- Muhammad Musa Bello (Adamawa)
- Sen Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom)
- Chris Ngige (Anambra)
- Sharon Ikeazu (Anambra)
- Adamu Adamu (Bauchi)
- Amb Mariam Katagum (Bauchi)
- Timipre Silva (Bayelsa)
- Sen. George Akume (Benue)
- Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno)
- Goddy Jedi Agba (Cross River)
- Festus Keyamo (Delta)
- Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)
- Dr Osagie Ehanire (Edo)
- Clement Anade Agba (Edo)
- Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti)
- Geoffery Oyeanma (Enugu)
- Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami (Gombe)
- Emeka Nwajuba (Imo)
- ENG. Sulaiman Adamu (Jigawa)
- Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed (Kaduna)
- Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud (Kaduna)
- Sabo Nanono (Kano)
- Maj Gen. Bashir Magashi (Kano)
- Hadi Sirika (Katsina)
- Abubarkar Malami (Kebbi)
- Ramatu Tijani (Kogi)
- Lai Mohammed (Kwara)
- Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara)
- Babatunde Raji Fashola (Lagos)
- Sen. Adeleke Mamora (Lagos)
- Mohammed H. Abdullahi (Nasarawa)
- Amb. Zubairu Dada (Niger)
- Olamilekan Adegbiti (Ogun
- Sen. Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo)
- Rauf Aregbesola (Osun)
- Sunday Dare (Oyo)
- Pauline Tallen (Plateau)
- Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)
- Mohammed Maigari Dangadi (Sokoto)
- ENG. Saleh Mamman (Taraba)
- Abubakar B. Aliyu (Yobe)
- Sadiya Umar Faruk (Zamfara)
