President Muhammadu Buhari’s seven ministerial nominees have all received Senate confirmation.
After being screened before the National Assembly’s upper chamber on Wednesday, June 29, they were officially announced.
Ahmed Lawan, president of the Senate, oversaw the exercise.
The news broke a few days after President Buhari named the ministers and requested their confirmation in a letter to the Senate.
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One minister each from the north-west, south-west, and south-south regions join the four newly confirmed ministers from four south-east states.
The new appointees include Henry Ikechukwu – Abia State, Umana Okon Umana – Akwa-Ibom State, Ekuma Joseph – Ebonyi State, Goodluck Nana Obia – Imo State, Umar Ibrahim Yakub – Kano State, Ademola Adewole Adegorioye – Ondo State, and Odo Udi – Rivers State.
They were named following the resignation of some cabinet members who quit their positions to seek elective posts in the just-concluded primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi; ex-Akwa Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio; Ogbonnaya Onu and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba were among ministers who resigned to contest for the APC presidential ticket – which none of them won.
Their resignation was in line with the provisions of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act which mandates that “no political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election”.
