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Fashola, Amaechi, Akpabio Sail Through as Senate Receives Buhari’s Ministerial Nominees

Malik Yahya/

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally forwarded the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.

There are 43 nominees announced by Senate President Ahmed Lawan among who are former ministers Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi and Ogbonnaya Onu.

Also on the list are former Governors Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, George Akume of Benue and Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State.

Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former Governor of Akwa Ibom, also made the list.

Full list of Ministerial Nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari

Ikechukwu Ogar  – Abia
Mohammed Musa Bello – Adamawa
Godswill Akpabio – Akwa Ibom
Dr Chris Ngige – Anambra
Sharon Ikeazor – Anambra .
Adamu Adamu – Bauchi
Maryam Katagum – Bauchi
Timipre Sylva – Bayelsa
George Akume – Benue
Mustapha Baba Shehuri – Borno
Godie Jerry Agba – Cross River
Festus Keyamo – Delta
Ogbonnaya Onu – Ebonyi
Osagie Ehinare – Edo
Clement Agba – Edo
Adeniyi Adebayo – Ekiti
Geoffrey Onyeama – Enugu
Ali Pantami – Gombe .
Emeka Nwajuba – IMO
Sulaiman Adamu – Jigawa
Zainab Ahmed – Kaduna
Hadi  Sirika – Katsina
Abubakar Malami – Kebbi
Sabo  Nanono – Kano
Maj  Gen Bashir Saleh – Kano
Ramatu Tijani – Kogi
Lai  Mohammed – Kwara
Gbemisola Saraki – Kwara
Olorunnibe Mamora – Lagos
Babatunde Fashola – Lagos
Subairu Dada – Niger
Olamilekan Adegbite – Ogun
Tayo Alasoadura – Ondo
Rauf Aregbesola – Osun
Sunday Dare – Oyo
Paulen Tallen – Plateau
Rotimi Amaechi – Rivers
Mohammed Maigeri Dengaji – Sokoto
Saleh Momoh – Taraba
Abubakar D Aliyu – Yobe

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