President Bola Tinubu has set the record for the highest number of ministerial nominees in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.
This is five ministerial nominees more than the 42 appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
A week ago, Tinubu nominated 28 people to be cleared by the senate to be ministers in his cabinet. On Wednesday, the president sent another list of 19 other people, making a total of 47 cabinet members.
In his first coming, President Buhari named 36 ministers, and 42 ministers during his second term.
Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 named 33 nominees to be ministers in his cabinet — including nine people from the Umar Yar’Adua administration.
In 2007, Yar’Adua named a 39-member cabinet, which included 32 men and seven women.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo initially named 42 ministers in 1999 but reviewed his cabinet to reduce the number of ministries and ministers to 27 and 40, respectively, before he left office in 2007.
Tinubu has now gone beyond Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan to name 47 ministers at one go — setting a new record in the country’s 24-year return to democracy.
See the full list of ministerial nominees below;
2023 BAT MINISTERIAL NOMINEES – FULL LIST
1 ????Akwa Ibom: Ekperikpe Ekpo
2 ????Bayelsa: Heineken Lolokpobri
3 ????Cross river: Betta Edu
4 ????Cross river: John Enoh
5 ????Delta: Stella Okotete
6 ????Edo: Abubakar Momoh
7 ????Rivers: Nyesom Wike
8 ⚫Adamawa: Tahir Mamman
9 ⚫Bauchi: Yusuf M Tuggar
10 ⚫Bauchi: Ali Pate
11 ⚫Borno: Abubakar Kyari
12 ⚫Gombe: Alkali Ahmed Saidu
13 ⚫Taraba: Uba Maigari Ahmadu
14 ⚫Yobe: Ibrahim Geidam
15 ⚫Taraba: Sani A Danladi
16 ????Jigawa: Mohamed Badaru
17 ????Kaduna: Nasir El-Rufai
18 ????Kano: Maryam Shetti
19 ????Kano: Abdullahi T Gwarzo
20 ????Katsina: Ahmad Dangiwa
21 ????Katsina: Hanatu Musawa
22 ????Kebbi: Yusuf Tanko Sununu
23 ????Kebbi: Atiku Bagudu
24 ????Sokoto: Bello M Goronyo
25 ????Zamfara: Bello Matawwalle
26 ????Abia: Nkiru Onyejiocha
27 ????Anambra: Uju Ohaneye
28 ????Ebonyi: David Umahi
29 ????Enugu: Uche Nnaji
30 ????Imo: Doris Uzoka
31 ????Ekiti: Dele Alake
32 ????Lagos: Tunji Alausa
33 ????Lagos: Lola Ade John
34 ????Ogun: Ishak Salako
35 ????Ogun: Bosun Tijjani
36 ????Ogun: Olawale Edun
37 ????Ondo: Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo
38 ????Osun: Adegboyega Oyetola
39 ????Oyo: Adebayo Adelabu
40 ????Benue: Joseph Utsev
41 ????FCT: Zaphaniah Bitrus Jisalo
42 ????Kogi: Shuaibu A Audu
43 ????Kwara: Lateef Fagbemi
44 ????Nasarawa: Imaan S-Ibrahim
45 ????Niger: Mohammed Idris
46 ????Niger: Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
47 ????Plateau: Simon Lalong
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