MINISTERS AWAITING PORTFOLIO ON RETREAT

A two-day presidential retreat for ministers-designate kicks-off today at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.

A statement yesterday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, said the retreat would hold at the State House Conference Centre.
This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari has neither sworn them in as ministers nor assigned portfolios to them yet.

The retreat is said to be aimed at integrating the ministers-designate into President Buhari’s administration’s agenda, ahead of their inauguration.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had reportedly stated that when the president was ready to swear in the ministers, he would say so and assign portfolios to them, accordingly. 

The ministers-designate include Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Chris Ngige (Anambra), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abdulrahman Dambazau (Kano), Aisha Alhassan (Taraba), Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi), Kemi Adeosun (Ogun), Abubakar Malami (Kebbi), Hadi Sirika (Katsina), Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa), Solomon Dalong (Plateau), Ibe Kachikwu (Delta), Osagie Ehanire (Edo), Audu Ogbeh (Benue), Udo Udo Udoma  (Akwa Ibom), Lai Mohammed (Kwara), Amina Mohammed (Gombe), Ibrahim Usman Jibril (Nasarawa), Anthony Onwuka (Imo) and Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa).

Others are Adamu Adamu (Bauchi), Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia), Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto), Khadija Bukar Abba (Yobe), Claudius Daramola (Ondo), Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu), M. Dan-Ali (Zamfara), James Ocholi (Kogi), Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna), Mustapha Shehuri (Borno), Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa), Isaac Adewole Folorunsho (Osun), Usani Usani Uguru (Cross River), Abubakar Bwari Bawa (Niger) and Adebayo Shittu (Oyo).