Sufuyan Ojeifo & Emmanuel Aziken
27 February 2002
PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo has nominated Dr. Olu Agunloye as minister ahead of what Presidency sources described yesterday as removal of ministers with gubernatorial ambitions.
It could not be immediately confirmed if the expected reshufle would be sweeping.
Dr. Agunloye, until recently, special adviser to the deceased Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Chief Bola Ige was nominated in a letter addressed to the Senate President and read on the Senate floor yesterday.
Dr. Agunloye, who was the first Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has a doctorate in physics. He hails from Ondo State which already has Dr. Olusegun Agagu, Minister of Power and Steel in the federal cabinet.
Sources said Dr. Agagu who has been much speculated to be interested in the race for the governorship of Ondo State could be on his way out of the cabinet.
Two other ministers, including a female minister, and Sports Minister, Mark Aku were also speculated to be on the list of those likely to be dropped from the federal cabinet.
Other speculations on the imminent shake-up of the federal cabinet were the possible stepping aside of Chief Tony Anenih from the federal cabinet, a move which sources said was to allow the political strategist concentrate on President Obasanjo s re-election campaign in 2003.
lNew SRECs for states
Also yesterday, the Presidency announced the appointment of 30 new State Resident Electoral Commissioners (SRECs).
They are:
Chief Mark A. U. Ogwo Abia
Mr. Dan Etukudo Akwa Ibom
Prof. T. I. Eze Anambra
Mr. Eugene Amaju Benue
Mr. Abba Kyari Kura Borno
Mr. Ekpenyong Nsa Cross River
Mr. Moses Ogbe Delta
Chief Jacob Igboke Nwakpa Ebonyi
Mr. Sylvester Isidahomen Egbase Edo
Chief M. A. Adebayo Ekiti
Dr. Gabriel A. Okafor Enugu
Alhaji Awwal Babayo Shehu Gombe
Sir John Nwosu Imo
Alhaji Umaru Usman Jigawa
Dr. Shehu Lawal Kaduna
Alhaji Hassan Suleiman Kano
Alhaji Garba Mohammed Bawa Katsina
Alhaji Abubakar Zaki Kebbi
Alhaji Shehu Usman Kwara
Mr. W. O. Gbajumo Lagos
Alhaji Umar M. Liman Niger
Chief Elkanah A. O. Akintade Ondo
Chief Ayo Makanju Dada Osun
Mr. Ahmed Adeniyi Oyo
Mr. Wakdung Gomwalk Plateau
Mr. C. Wihioka Rivers
Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf Gada Sokoto
Alhaji Gidado Abubakar Taraba
Alhaji Isyaku K. Maigoro FCT
The new State Resident Electoral Commissioners (SRECs) are to report to the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja, not later than tomorrow for detail of their appointment and deployment, according to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Ufot Ekaette.
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