Buhari returns 12 former ministers, drops 18

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday announced names of 12 former ministers who worked with him in his first term for reappointment.

They are Babatunde Fashola (Lagos State), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State) Hadi Sirika (Katsina State), Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna State), Lai Mohammed (Kwara State) Chris Ngige (Anambra State),  Adamu Adamu (Bauchi State), Abubakar Malami (Jigawa State),  Godfrey Onyeama (Enugu State), Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi State) , Osagie Enahire (Edo State), Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa State), and Mohameed Bello (Adamawa State).

Some of the former ministers not reappointed are Okechukwu Enelamah  (Abia State),  Udoma Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom State),  Heineken Lokpobiri  (Bayelsa State), Audu Ogbeh  (Benue State)  and  Usani Uguru (Cross River State).

Others are  Ibe Kachikwu (Delta State),  Anthony Anwuka (Imo State ), Stephen Ochani (Kogi State), Abdulrahaman Dambazau (Kano State), Abubakar Bawa Bwari (Niger State), Cladius Omoleye Daramola (Ondo State)  Isaac Adewole (Osun State ), Adebayo Shittu    (Oyo State ), Solomon Dalong  (Plateau State), Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto State ) and Mansur  Dan Ali  (Zamfara State).

– Punch