Aganga, Anenih, Kayode, Nwodo, Iyabo Obasanjo, Akala Lose out

Several members of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, may not be coming back to the cabinet as their names are conspicuously missing from the list of nominees for federal appointment, which the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will soon submit to the presidency.

According to the list of nominees from 26 states obtained by the Nigerian Pilot yesterday, the names of the minister of Finance, Olusegun Agagu, his Defence counterpart, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode and the minister of women affairs, Iyom Josephine Anenih were omitted by their state chapters of the party, which sent the list to the PDP national secretariat.

It was gathered that the Lagos State chapter of PDP had already written a petition to the presidency disclaiming the Finance minister, whom they said is an indigene of Edo State, while Prince Kayode’s troubles may not be unconnected with the crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the party.

This is coming just as the national leadership of the PDP is still maintaining Yobe State’s two different lists of nominees for federal appointment.
Billionaire investor, Jimoh Ibrahim; former speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Ette; wife of the former PDP national chairman, Mrs. Marian Ali; former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Senator Ayo Arise, were all included in the list of nominees.

While political associates of former President Olusegun Obasanjo dominated the list from Ogun State, the name of his daughter, Senator Iyabor Obasanjo-Bello was conspicuously missing from the Ogun State nominees.
Included in the Ogun nominees list are the PDP governorship candidate, Gen. Adetunji Olurin, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Sen. Felix Bajoma.

Chief Tony Anenih again asserted his control of the Edo State chapter of the party with only names of members of the faction loyal to him on the list, even though his wife, who is currently using Anambra State slot in the federal cabinet, did not scale through.

In Delta State, the unexpected nominee was the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Ovie Omo-Agege, whose name appeared with that of the minister of the Niger Delta, Goddey Orubebe and the wife of former PDP national chairman among others.

Contrary to speculations, the name of the PDP immediate past national chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze is not among those to be considered for federal appointment from Enugu State just as the name of the outgoing governor of Oyo State, Christopher Alao-Akala is missing from the list of nominees from the state.

However, close scrutiny of the list indicates that the PDP state chapters may not have taken into cognisance the desire of President Goodluck Jonathan to allocate 35 percent of the slots to women, as none of the states has up to three women in the list of ten nominees.

Most members of the PDP National Working Committee also made the list of nominees from their respective states excluding the acting national chairman, Bello Haliru Mohammed; national secretary, Kawu Baraje; national publicity secretary, Prof. Ahmed Rufai Alkali and the national woman leader, Hajia Inna Ciroma.

By Mike Odiakose

Oh my satan. Mediocrity celebration. Ayo Arise, Oyinlola etteh, people with bad records are celebrated in PDP. oooo what a mess is Nigeria

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Hold on did i just see Patricia Etteh's name there? Hahahahaha laughing in Igbira

Wow, thanks to Ibos the only black country that has Super Power potential is going down the drain. My only joy though is that Ibos have been shown that they are inconsequential and irrelevant in Nigeria despite their rigging prowess. Fifth Class citizens in the land of their birth. That alone, gives me tremendous joy. Freaking cannibalistic monkeys!