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By Tunde Sulaiman and Anayo Ezugwu


Ahead of the inauguration of the president- elect Bola Tinubu’s istration next month, the shape of the new government is beginning to surface with speculation of names of those that would form the cabinet. Highly placed sources in the All Progressives Congress (APC) told New Telegraph the Northern governors of the party are to be “well compensated” for their insistence in backing a southern candidate to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari, who is from the North would have completed his eight years next month.

Some of the governors who had stood resolutely behind this position, which ultimately paved the way for the emergence of Tinubu, were Nasir el- Rufai of Kaduna State and his Kano counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje. Consequently both are being strongly considered for plum positions in the next government with Ganduje being pencilled down the President-elect for the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and el-Rufai as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

The source also told us that a former Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, Wale Edun, has been pencilled down to take over the Ministry of Finance. New Telegraph recalls that Tinubu nominated Edun in 2015 for President Muhammadu Buhari to be appointed Minister of Finance but the president deferred to the then Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun who nominated the former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who was also a Commissioner in his cabinet. The source also revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been pencilled down for the Chief of Staff to the President-elect.

New Telegraph learnt that a former head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi and a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani are among those in the race for ministerial positions. Nnamani would be rewarded for the role he played in ing Tinubu despite the outcry and popularity of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi in the region, which led to Nnamani losing his senatorial reelection bid. The former governor was also later expelled from his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for ing the then APC presidential candidate New Telegraph also learnt that some stakeholders in the ruling party are lobbying for the President-elect to compensate Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for the role he played in the presidential election.

Some of them said that the governor should be given the opportunity to nominate the minister that will represent the state in the cabinet. It is believed that Wike will not defect to the ruling party despite the crisis in the main opposition party, the PDP. Wike worked for the victory of Tinubu in Rivers State during the presidential election but in the governorship, he ensured that his preferred candidate, Siminalayi Fubara, emerged victorious.

As the speculations continue, Tinubu had assured Nigerians that he would constitute a government of national competence. In a statement he personally signed, the president elect said: “In selecting my government, I shall not be weighed down by considerations extraneous to ability and performance. “The day for political gamesmanship is long gone. I shall assemble competent men and women and young people from across Nigeria to build a safer, more prosperous and just Nigeria. Securing our nation and making it prosperous must be our top priorities. We cannot sacrifice these goals for political expediency. The whims of politics must take a backseat to the imperatives of governance.”

Tinubu, who is currently resting abroad, is still said to be holding a series of consultations from a variety of interests as he intends to hit the ground running once he is inaugurated on May 29. From what New Telegraph learnt, unlike Buhari’s first term when he operated for months without a cabinet, Tinubu wants to ensure that he has one in place as soon as possible.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/tinubus-cabinet-payback-time-for-northern-apc-govs/

Drug business will boom after Tinubu swearing -In

Drug business will replace Yahoo yahoo among the Nigerian youths because a drug baron is the president..

Bobo Chicago will definitely be a better president than bubu.... atleast he has a history of working with people who are competent.....my fears is shettima assuming power before our mandate is restored by God's grace

LagosFirstSon:
Drug business will boom after Tinubu swearing -In

Drug business will replace Yahoo yahoo among the Nigerian youths because a drug baron is the president..

Is drug business not number one booming business in South E**t already?

Millions of our blodas across Asia prisons would give anything to have such a president for asylum

Which TV Station is going to show the court proceeding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVffRfU0FQ4

God bless Nigeria
Watch this interesting documentary about ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU, the PRESIDENT-ELECT of Nigeria.

Yeah pay back for northern governors and northern top politicians
But the rest of the masses, nothing changes, everybody will still hustle for their daily bread. Both those that voted apc, the ballot box snatchers etc. Everybody will return to fuel queues, high inflation in the market, insecurity etc. Whether Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba.

Some idiots are yet to realize that they spend their entire day here constituting nuisance in the name of ethnic bigotry when in the actual sense, they won't benefit anything special even if someone from their tribe is the president. Everyone will still suffer the misrule

Instead of competence they are looking at payback.
Reason why the nation never progresses.

Obi mandate must be returned.

Has Tinubu responded to the Tribunal

Payback time to those that helped him to rig the selection.

Awon were...

Wike deserves Attorney General of Federation

LagosFirstSon:
Drug business will boom after Tinubu swearing -In

Drug business will replace Yahoo yahoo among the Nigerian youths because a drug baron is the president..

Ok let it be... This one is stale tell us another story.

Legitiscool:
Is drug business not number one booming business in South E**t already?

Millions of our blodas across Asia prisons would give anything to have such a president for asylum

Is that why you people decided to present a drug lord to represent you people?

Nnamani as a minister is a confirmation that Tinubu's regime will be a disaster.
Politics of reward.
I thought Tinubu said he will appoint competent people to ministerial posts.

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The earlier you move on, the better for you. Election as come and go, so rest and focus on your life.

God bless u

Happy Easter

Gangster1ms:
Instead of competence they are looking at payback.
Reason why the nation never progresses.

Obi mandate must be returned.

3rd class in school, 3rd in elections... Nor be only mandate na magnate!

Legitiscool:
Is drug business not number one booming business in South E**t already?

Millions of our blodas across Asia prisons would give anything to have such a president for asylum

yea na ,and tinubu is a member of cartel ,we dey run it with tinubu

Good

Tinubu will be sworn in and he'll be the best President Nigeria has ever produced Insha Allah.

Let the sons and daughters of Jezebel keep crying mand-ediot stolen

Do you guys see any change with this old rogues

I pray Obi reclaims his stolen mandate

Unfriendly reminder!

Your druggie grandpa dug his grave, with his own hands and mouth

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Dry n empty thread, always speculating!

At least one ibo man must be a minister, please

The same old thieves! aLOOTa continua.

Na God just dey help Nigerians.

49 days to swearing in!

I'm ahead of them, Asiwaju

potbelly:
Nepotism instead of competence...
It is well...

They are all better qualified than the fraud Peter Obi.

peter Obi increased Internally Generated Revenue (igr) from N7 billion to N8 billion in Anambra. Poor!

Nasir El-Rufai increased Kaduna State igr from N15 billion to N52.8 billion.

tinubu increased igr from N14.6 billion in 1999 to N83.02 billion when Mr tinubu left office in 2007

LagosFirstSon:
Drug business will boom after Tinubu swearing -In

Drug business will replace Yahoo yahoo among the Nigerian youths because a drug baron is the president..

Na igbo people dey push drugs na.
Death to Any Drug peddlers caught henceforth.

It's all speculations here and there - media houses must sell

So it is despicable criminals like Gandollar and Atiku Bagudu that are to be rewarded?

Nepotism instead of competence...
It is well...

07kjb:
Do you guys see any change with this old rogues

I pray Obi reclaims his stolen mandate

Stop deceiving yourself.
There's no Mandate for Obi to claim.
You people are the once who want to steal mandate.
Riff raffs!