2015 GOVERNORSHIP RACE #7 Ministers May Quit Jonathan’s Cabinet# Seven ministers with governorship ambition may soon quit the President Jonathan administration to pursue their dreams. The ministers are the minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike (Rivers), information minister, Labaran Maku (Nasarawa); Niger Delta Affairs minister, Godsday Orubebe (who is already pitted against elder statesman, Edwin Clark) in Delta; aviation minister, Adaeze Stella Oduah (Anambra); police affairs minister, Caleb Olubolade (Ekiti); FCT minister, Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) and his education counterpart, Professor Ruqqayat Rufai (Jigawa). It was learnt that the number of ministers expected to resign may be higher as more are believed to be testing the waters before they would come out to indicate their interest. It was also gathered that President Jonathan has given the affected ministers October deadline to resign their appointments. The president’s directive is said to have been informed by growing allegations against the ministers that they were using their offices and also hiding under his cover to pursue their ambition. President Jonathan has given the affected ministers a notice to quit his administration on or before October this year. An impeccable source revealed that the delay in the much-awaited cabinet reshuffle was due to the president’s awareness that some of the ministers were nursing ambitions to govern their states in 2015. “There has to be a once and for all repackaging if at all the president needs to change his team; but as it is, reshuffling the cabinet ahead of October would create a vacuum to be filled again after October”, the source said. But as this disclosure came, the presidency has clarified that President Jonathan did not need to pressure any minister to quit since the laws guiding electoral matters were clear enough to guide the aspirants In spite of this, the source said President Jonathan has lately been inundated with reports of some underhand dealings without his knowledge in some of the affected states. The source who linked the lingering political crisis in Rivers State to the alleged governorship ambition of Wike, further disclosed that there are several other suppressed frictions in some states of the federation that “are merely being managed”. “From all indications, some ministers with ambition to govern their respective states usually drop the president’s name in most things they do just to foster their ambition. In most cases, they deliberately misinform stakeholders within the PDP knowing fully-well that such people have little or no access to either the national leadership of the party or even the presidency to clarify issues.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:20:43 +0000
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