President Tinubu’s Key Ally Sends Message to Wike, El Rufai, Others, Over Alleged Ministerial Nomination

President Tinubu’s Key Ally Sends Message to Wike, El Rufai, Others, Over Alleged Ministerial Nomination

  • Hours before the deadline for submission of ministerial nominees to the Senate, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly finally forwarded the list to the National Assembly
  • The list of ministerial nominees to face the rigour of screening on the floor of the Red Chamber is expected to be read at plenary on Thursday, July 27
  • An ally of the president, Bayo Onanuga, sent a congratulatory message to the politicians and technocrats who will work with President Tinubu soon

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FCT, Abuja - Bayo Onanuga, the director of Media and Publicity of the defunct Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima Campaign, on Thursday, July 27, sent a congratulatory message to all the ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Onanuga, in a Twitter post, prayed for prosperity for the incoming appointees.

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Ministerial list/List of Tinubu ministerial nominees
Onanuga has congratulated persons purported to have made President Tinubu's ministerial list. Photo credit: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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Onanuga Congratulates all President Tinubu's ministerial nominees

The Nation newspaper had reported that former Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai, his Rivers state counterpart Nyesom Wike and eminent medical scholar Ali Pate are on the list of ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

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The Cable also reported that Atiku Bagudu, former governor of Kebbi; Mohammed Badaru, former governor of Jigawa; and David Edevbie, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, are included in the list sent to the Senate.

Reacting to the reports, Onanuga wrote on Twitter:

“Congratulations to all the President Bola Tinubu's ministerial nominees. May your tenures renew the national hope. Amen.”

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In a piece of related news, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Tinubu reportedly settled for Bayo Adelabu as the minister that will represent Oyo state in the cabinet of the new presidency.

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This was disclosed by Akin Akinwale, a member of the state executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state.

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Legit.ng also reported that more speculations have emerged over the unreleased ministerial list of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which is believed to have been sent to the Senate for confirmation.

Emerging information from a State House source revealed that Muhammad Ali Pate, a former Minister of State for Health under the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was named in the ministerial list of President Tinubu.

Source: Legit.ng

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