Second Batch Ministerial List: Tinubu Sends 19 new ministerial nominees to Senate; IPAC faults nomination of ex-governors as ministers

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, sent additiona 19 new names to the Senate for screening.

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio read the names out on the floor of the Senate after the screening of the first batch of names sent by the President last week.

The second batch of the list included four former governors and some other popular politicians.

The new list containing 19 names now brings the number of nominees to 47 after the initial 28 names.

See the full list of the second batch ministerial nominees below:

Ahmed Tijjani

Bosun Tijjani

Maryam Shetti

Ishak Salako

Tunji Alausa

Tanko Sununu

Adegboyega Oyetola

Atiku Bagudu

Bello Matawalle

Ibrahim Geidam

Simon Bako Lalong

Lola Adejo

Shuaibu Abubakar

Tahir Mamman

Aliyu Sabi

Alkali Ahmed

Heineken Lokpobiri

Uba Maigari

Zephaniah Jissalo

And following this announcement of President Bola Tinubu’s 47 cabinet picks, the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Wednesday raised concerns over the list, particularly the nomination of seven former governors, two of whom respectively lost their last re-election bids.

The roll-call included one-term governors Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), alongside their two-term counterparts, Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), and Nyesom Wike (Rivers).

The IPAC National Chairman, Yabagi Sani, in a live appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, took issue with Tinubu’s choices, particularly after his struggle for Nigeria’s return to democracy in the 1990s.

“How can you come and then embark on policies that you know are anti-people and you now put people that you know?” he said.

“Some of the people that he put as ministers were rejected by the people; some of them contested and they were rejected.

“So, how can you bring them back through the back door again and say they must preside over the affairs of the people? That’s not the kind of country we want to run. We must begin to give Nigerians confidence.”

According to him, no Nigerian would say they are impressed by the President’s ministerial list.

“I’m disappointed – awfully disappointed – because, like I said, Mr President, Tinubu, is behaving differently from what I expected of him,” he said.