Breaking: Shekarau, Others Confirmed as Ministers

Former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, Abu Bulama from Yobe State, Stephen Oru from Delta State, and Adedayo Adeyeye from Ekiti State were confirmed as ministers by the Senate on Wednesday. According to Premium Times, they were all nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr Oru was the National Vice Chairman, South South of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while Adedayo Adeyeye is a leader of the party in #Ekiti. The new ministers were appointed following the resignations of some former ministers such as Yerima Ngama, former minister of state for finance; Caleb Olubolade, former minister of police affairs; and Godsday Orubebe, former minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Mr. Shekarau, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, decamped to the #PDP after the former’s structure in Kano was handed to the incumbent governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who had decamped from the PDP to the #APC.