PDP and APC may be the same in terms of politicians. When it comes to business and administration, one will have no option than to applause PDP for not mixing politics with administration.

Remember it took former president six weeks to name his cabinet while president Buhari took six months.

PDP will always have our respect in that the ministers they chose were not always all politicians.

Looking at APC, we see a group of ministers who are largely politicians hence, they lack the technical know-how to solve challenges.

In PDP administration, I remember these few ministers who had created good lasting impressions in my mind and that of many Nigerians.

1. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga (Minister of Trade and Investment)
In office 9 March 2013 – 29 May 2015

Achievements
Mr. Aganga has been widely acclaimed as being responsible for many transformational milestones in Nigeria, including – establishing the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund; issuing the Nation’s first ever Euro Bond; chairing the World Bank and IMF in 2010, chairing the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC8) in Geneva in 2011 (the first African to chair these organisations); making Nigeria the premier destination for investments in Africa, and launching the country’s boldest industrialization agenda.

He was also responsible for structuring and financing the first standard gauge rail (Abuja to Kaduna) in Nigeria. He is also the Chairman of Marina Express, the first private sector developer of rail in Lagos. He sits on a number of Boards including the Advisory Board of the Queens Commonwealth Trust based in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Aganga remains one of the most regarded investor influencers for Nigeria, based on his extensive experience both internationally & domestically, and his track record in and out of government.

Some specific milestone achievements include:

1. Complete transformation of the Federal Government of Nigerian (FGN) Ministry of Trade & Investment (MITI) into Nigeria’s number 1 economic ministry.

2. Operationalised Nigeria’s debt resolution vehicle, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), to improve the liquidity and bring stability into banking industry after the global economic crisis working closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

3. As chair of the WTO MC8 ministerial conference, he laid the foundation for the first WTO trade agreement and also played a pivotal role in finalising the agreement in Bali, Indonesia, in 2013. This was the first multilateral trade agreement in the 13 years of the WTO.

4. Initiated several policies to diversify the Nigerian economy towards making Nigeria less import dependent and creating jobs. These policies include the auto policy, sugar policy, cotton textile, garment policy, and co-developed a new rice production policy. He fully implemented the cement policy which led to self sufficiency in cement, the end of importation of cement into Nigeria, and for the first time in Nigerian history, companies started exporting cement.

5. Recorded major milestones as the FGN Minister of Trade & Investment which include:
a) Turning manufacturing into the second fastest growing sector in the Nigerian economy [Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS)]
b) Mobilised strategic investment and expansions in key strategic sectors where Nigeria was previously import dependent such as (sugarcane to sugar policy), sugar, auto, Petro chemical, refinery, fertiliser and cement.
c) Recorded significant growth in the number of companies in the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector from 17.2 million in 2010 to 32.4 million in 2014, and the attendant employment created by this sector also increased astronomically from 37 million in 2010 to 60 million in 2014 (NBS).
d) Initiated the countries first national quality infrastructure program with UNIDO.
e) Reduced business registration cost by 50% for SME’s and 25% for large companies. He also established a 24 hour registration service in some commercial cities, and launched an on-line registration platform. He also introduced the visa-on-arrival policy for investors.
f) During his tenure as Minister of MITI, Nigeria was rated number 1 by the World Street Journal Frontiers Market index as the most watched frontiers market in the world.
g) NLI was a catalyst for Nigeria’s economic vision 20:2020.

Education and background

Aganga was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he obtained a B.Sc Degree in Biological Sciences in 1977 and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom where he obtained a degree in Theology in 2000. Aganga qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983.

Professional career

His professional career extends over four decades, holding a number of leadership positions both within the private and public sector. Mr. Aganga was previously a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs in London, working in prime brokerage, covering Hedge Funds.

Prior to this, he was a Director with Ernst & Young, London responsible for covering traditional and alternative investment firms including Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds. Prior to that, he was responsible for some Japanese clients and companies in a number of industries including oil and gas, automobile, insurance, FMCG and construction. Mr. Olusegun Aganga is the Founder and Chairman of 3V Partners Ltd., an asset development and investment company focused on some identified sectors of the economy including infrastructure. 3V has a presence in the UK.

Within the public sector he served first as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance & Chairman Economic Management Team; and then as its Minister of Industry, Trade & Investments.

2. Prof. Bartholomew Nnaji (Minister of Power and Steel) is a Nigerian engineer, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept.

July 2011 – 28 August 2012

Biography
He was born in Enugu State, Nigeria and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, New York USA. He then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for his Masters and PhD in Engineering. He also obtained a Post Doctorate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT).

Nnaji joined the faculty of Engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the Founder and Director of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University. He became a full Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics: Computer Aided Design, Robotics and Computer Aided Engineering. Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate have a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept, where product design Engineers can work from remote locations collaboratively to design, assemble and test the same product, using the computer and internet/World Wide Web.

Nnaji moved to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1996 as ALCOA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Engineering. He subsequently was appointed the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he also served as the Founding Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for e-Design – a five University-campus NSF Center of Excellence in e-design. He officially left the University and returned to Nigeria in 2007.

In 1993, Nnaji took a leave of absence from the University and came back to Nigeria to serve as Federal Minister of Science and Technology. He founded Geometric Power, Nigeria's first indigenous-owned power development company in 2000. In 2010 he served as Special Adviser to the President on Power, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power. He became Nigeria's Minister of Power in 2011, and resigned in August 2012.

Nnaji is a seasoned technocrat. However he has often been mistaken for Dr. Iheanyichukwu Godswill Nnaji from Imo State, Nigeria who ran as a Presidential Candidate in 2007, under the Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP).

As Nigerian Minister Of Power
On 28 August 2012, Barth Nnaji resigned as Nigeria's Minister of Power. Prior to accepting to serve his nation as Minister of Power, Prof Nnaji returned from the USA under Pres. Obasanjo's administration and developed the Aba INTEGRATED Power Project (Aba IPP) based on a Lease Agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). The Obasanjo Administration had initiated the Power Sector reform in 2004, which led to the privatization of the sector in 2011, under President Goodluck Jonathan. However, for political reasons, the government reneged on the terms of the Agreement by failing to offer the ring-fence to the project developers during the power sector privatization of state-run companies in an attempt to end Nigeria's chronic power shortages. When Prof. Bart Nnaji resigned his position in 2012, the Economist magazine in its article titled "A Bright Spark is Extinguished" stated that Mr Nnaji's supporters say that opponents of privatisation belatedly and unfairly engineered his departure. “Nnaji was the best person for the job,” says an adviser at the presidential task-force on the reform of power. “But he was getting in the way of other interests.” A spokesman for Mr Nnaji said he had faced "totally wrongful accusations" and chose to resign honorably.

3. Akinwumi Adesina (Minister of Agriculture) is the President of the African Development Bank. He previously served as Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Until his appointment as Minister in 2010, he was Vice President of Policy and Partnerships for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). In 2015, he was elected as the President of the African Development Bank. He was the first Nigerian to hold the post.

Nigerian Agriculture Minister
In office 2010–2015

Early life and career
Adesina was born to a Nigerian farmer in Ibadan, Oyo State. He attended a village school and graduated with a Bachelors in Agricultural Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Ife, Nigeria (1981), where he was the first student to be awarded this distinction by the university. He pursued his studies at Purdue University in Indiana, briefly returning to Nigeria in 1984 to get married. He obtained his PhD (Agricultural Economics) in 1988 from Purdue where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis for his research work.[6]

From 1990 to 1995, Adesina served as a senior economist at West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) in Bouaké, Ivory Coast.

He worked at the Rockefeller Foundation since winning a fellowship from the Foundation as a senior scientist in 1988. From 1999 to 2003 he was the representative of the Foundation for the southern African area. From 2003 until 2008 he was an associate director for food security.

As Minister of Agriculture, 2010–2015
Adesina was the Nigerian Agriculture Minister from 2010 to 2015. During this time the Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was Ibukun Odusote. Adesina was named as Forbes African Man of the Year for his reform of Nigerian agriculture. He introduced more transparency into the fertiliser supply chain. He also said that he would give away mobile phones to farmers but this proved too difficult. One of the reasons was the lack of a mobile network in country areas.

In 2010, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as one of 17 global leaders to spearhead the Millennium Development Goals.

President of the African Development Bank, 2015–present
On 28 May 2015, Adesina was elected the presumptive President of the African Development Bank. He began his tenure of the office on 1 September 2015. He is the eighth president in the organization's history, and the first Nigerian to hold the post.

He launched a strategy based on energy, agriculture, industrialization, regional integration and bettering Africans' lives. The Board of Executive Directors approved the reorganization of the structure around these five priorities.

In September 2016, Adesina was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve as member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.

In 2017, he was awarded 2017 World Food Prize. Upon receiving the prize on October 21, 2017. Adesina donated the $250,000 he received to the development of African youth in agriculture.

Recognition

In July 2007, he was awarded the YARA Prize for the African Green Revolution in Oslo.

In 2008, Purdue University’s College of Agriculture gave him their Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award.

In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Franklin and Marshall College

In 2013, he was named as Forbes Africa Person of the Year.

On May 5, 2015, he was awarded an Extraordinary Achievement Award by Silverbird Television, Nigeria.

On June 26, 2017, he was named winner of the World Food Prize.

4. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance) is an economist and international development expert. She sits on the Boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and the African Risk Capacity (ARC).

Minister of Finance
In office 17 August 2011 – 29 May 2015

Coordinating Minister for the Economy
In office 17 August 2011 – 29 May 2015



Career
Okonjo-Iweala spent a 25-year career at the World Bank in Washington DC as a development economist, rising to the No. 2 position of Managing Director. As Managing Director, she had oversight responsibility for the World Bank’s $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia. Okonjo-Iweala spearheaded several World Bank initiatives to assist low-income countries during the 2008 – 2009 food crises and later during the financial crisis. In 2010, she was Chair of the IDA replenishment, the World Bank’s successful drive to raise $49.3 billion in grants and low interest credit for the poorest countries in the world. During her time at the World Bank, she was also a member of the Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa which was set up by the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark and held meetings between April and October 2008.

Okonjo-Iweala served twice as Nigeria’s Finance Minister and also as Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was the first female to hold both positions. During her first term as Minister of Finance under president Obasanjo’s Administration, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club of Creditors that led to the wiping out of US$30 billion of Nigeria’s debt, including the outright cancellation of US$18 billion. In 2003 she led efforts to improve Nigeria’s macroeconomic management including the implementation of an oil-price based fiscal rule where revenues accruing above a reference benchmark oil price were saved in a special account, “The Excess Crude Account” which helped to reduce macroeconomic volatility.

She also introduced the practice of publishing each state's monthly financial allocation from the Federal Government of Nigeria in the newspapers. This action went a long way in increasing transparency in governance. With the support of the World Bank and the IMF to the Federal Government of Nigeria, she helped build an electronic financial management platform-the Government

These four personalities were instrumental to the growing GDP and economic strength of our dear nation. To say that PDP has not done anything for 16 years is not declare that these fine Nigerians have not contributed anything during their service years.

These great Nigerians are today still making impact all over the world.

Fellow Nigerians, check President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet today, you will see that our ministers are mainly politicians with little or no technical knowledge in their areas of duties.

Do you think such cabinet can take us to the promise land?

Foundation of PDP is faulty,PDP was formed by the cabals then in order to control manipulating the masses.Never again PDP in this nation

Baawaa:
Foundation of PDP is faulty,PDP was formed by the cabals then in order to control manipulating the masses.Never again PDP in this nation

A typical APC supporter

There was 30 times more bomb blasts from 2011-2015 than 2015-2019.
Eod

There was 30 times more bomb blasts from 2011-2015 than 2015-2019.
Eod

Danger lies ahead of a nation who prioritises mediocrity above competence

There is no single world class technocrat in buhari cabinet

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abduljabbar4:
There was 30 times more bomb blasts from 2011-2015 than 2015-2019.

Eod

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there was 20 million times more jobs from 2011-2015 than 2015-2029


EOD

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there was 20 million times more jobs from 2011-2015 than 2015-2029


EOD

Job vs life?

Use your brain na

abduljabbar4:


Job vs life?

Use your brain na

Now we have higher rate of suicides

Higher numbers of soldiers being killed

Higher death rate from Fulani herdsmen killing

abduljabbar4:
There was 30 times more bomb blasts from 2011-2015 than 2015-2019.

Eod

Those who threw bombs randomly have graduated to face to face attack on military formations

abduljabbar4:


Job vs life?

Use your brain na

Which life? Is bomb the only cause of deaths? Guns and cutlass have overtaken bomb blasts

Asshurbanipal:

Which life? Is bomb the only cause of deaths? Guns and cutlass have overtaken bomb blasts

and who are the biggest victims in that aspect?