Colour of Tinubu's ministerial list as President beats Senate deadline

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is said to have met the 60 days deadline for the sbmission and screening of his ministerial list by the Senate.

Tinubu submitted the ministerial list to the Senate early Thursday in Abuja.

Indications of the colour of the ministerial list are still a guesswork, but a former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and a former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai are sait to be on the list.

Also, Gboyega Oyetola and Prof. Ben Ayade, former Governors of Osun and Cross River states respectively, are also on the list.

Others are Wale Edun, a long-time Tinubu associate, and a legal luminary, Lateef Fagbemi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The President’s Special Adviser on Media, Strategy and Special Duties, Dele Alake, also made the Ministerial list alongside the candidate of Accord party for the 2023 governorship election in Oyo State, Bayo Adelabu.

The National Woman Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Beta Edu, made the cut alongside Mohammed Ali Pate, a Harvard Professor of Medicine, who had earlier served as Minister of State for Health in the Administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.