PHOTOS: SEE Ministerial Nominees Deeply Tied With PMB’s In-Group

The second batch of Muhammadu Buhari’s list of the ministerial nominees, sent to the senate on Monday, contains names of people deeply tied with Buhari’s in-group. See who is who among them.

The people on the second batch of the ministerial nominees have close ties with Buhari and his inner cirlce

Some of the nominees from the second batch of ministerial list have very close ties with Muhammadu Buhari and his political associates.

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed calls Nasir El-Rufai her uncle, but he is her step-brother

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed is known as Nasir El-Rufai’s “niece” – however, it’s not exactly like that. She is Yahaya Hamza’s daughter who was El-Rufai’s foster father. Both Naisr El-Rufai and Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed are 55 years old, but she calls him her “uncle”. Her father died in August 2015. Yahaya Hamza was the ex-secretary to the government of Kaduna state. Besides that he occupied the post of the permanent secretary in the federal ministry of education.

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Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed hails from northern Nigeria and was born in Kaduna state. According to her own words she started her career in the public service with Kaduna state ministry of finance in 1982, hoping to become the accountant general of the state and possibly of the country.

“The fight against corruption in Nigeria is the single most important thing we have to do, because it has permeated every aspect of our lives and it is very important that it should be curtailed and this time impunity should be eradicated”, she commented on Buhari’s political goals in an interview on August 19, while serving as the executive secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

Anthony Anwuka invited the APC leaders including Buhari to his son’s wedding with the daughter of the Imo state governor

Anthony Anwuka, the former secretary to the Imo state government, has close family ties with Rochas Okorocha, the current Imo governor.

Uzoma Anwuka married Okorocha’s daughter, Uju last October. PMB was present among guests at the wedding

The wedding of  Anwuka’s son, Uzoma, to Okorocha’s daughter, Uju in October 2014 was attended by the APC leaders including Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Nasarawa governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura and would-be president Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari among guests at the wedding

Later Muhammadu Buhari included Awuka in his transition committee.

Okechukwu “Okey” Enelamah succeeded Osinbajo’s pastoral parish

Okechukwu “Okey” Enelamah, who is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of African Capital Alliance (ACA), the leading independent private equity firm investing in West Africa, comes from a family of pastors. Enelamah is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

Yemi Osinbajo handed over the reins in his parish to Enelamah

He has close ties to vice president  Yemi Osinbajo, succeeding him as the pastor the Pastor of the Olive Tree provincial headquarter parish of the Lagos Province 48.  After APC’s coming to power in the recent general election Enelamah preached a special message to celebrate the victory of Buhari’s political force.

Enelamah is known as a talented financial expert, having worked with Goldman Sachs and Arthur Andersen. He is a chartered financial analyst and holds an MBA from the Harvard business school.

Aisha hasn’t been politically active before emerging on the ministerial list

Aisha Abubakar is the daughter of Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, the former finance minister, who also once served as the high commissioner to the UK. During the military era he was one of the most significant figures in Sokoto’s elite.

Aisha Abubakar hasn’t been spotted in political activity previously unlike her brother Aminu Abubakar Alhaji, who unsuccessfully tried to replace Aminu Tambuwal in the house of reps in the recent NASS elections on March 28. Aisha Abubakar graduated from the University of Warwick (UK) with a bachelor’s degree in politics and international studies. Besides that she holds a master’s degree in development studies, University of Leeds. Currently she occupies director’s post of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate at PENCOM.

Isaac Folorunso Adewole, once one of PMB’s worst enemy, now emerged on the ministerial list

Isaac Folorunso Adewole, professor of gynaecology and obstetrics, nominated by Muhammadu Buhari for the ministerial position in 2015, is tied to Muhammadu Buhari in a very interesting way.

The thing is that once he was one of PMB’s worst enemies and had to flee the country because he was declared wanted dead or alive by Buhari, the then-military military head of state. Isaac Adewole was one of the leaders of a nationwide doctors’ strike against Buhari, who, in his turn, sacked him from the post of the president of the national association of resident doctors of Nigeria.

After that Adewole had to go on exile to the UK where he worked at the cancer campaign research institute in London. After Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida, Adewole returned to Nigeria and was elected as deputy secretary-general of the Nigerian medical association in 1988.  Currently Isaac Adewole is the vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan.

Just 12 days after the first batch of ministerial nominees was sent to the Senate for confirmation, the second batch has found its way to the media.

President Muhammadu Buhari today sent the list of the 2nd batch of ministerial nominees to the Senate October 12.

The list was submitted to the Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari accompanied by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang.

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