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Senate Confirms Shekarau, Others As Ministers

The Senate has confirmed the former governor of Kano State, Mr Ibrahim Shekarau,  and other persons nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan for appointment as a … Continue reading Senate Confirms Shekarau, Others As Ministers


shekaruThe Senate has confirmed the former governor of Kano State, Mr Ibrahim Shekarau,  and other persons nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan for appointment as a Ministers.

Mr Shekarau was confirmed after a screening exercise at plenary on Wednesday.

Other nominees confirmed as Ministers are Abdu Bulama, Stephen Oru as well as Mister Adedayo Adeyeye.

President Jonathan had earlier sent the names of the nominees to the senate for confirmation.

In January, Shekarau defected to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Over 10,000 others from the 44 local councils in the state also defects from the party to the PDP with him.

The defected APC members called the process ‘PDP Islamiyya’ which they said was a replacement of ‘APC Islamiyya’.

Mr Shekarau said that the decision was taken after series of negotiations and counter negotiations with the APC’s leaders at the national level.

The Ministry he will head is not yet known.