Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given all Ministers interested in vying for any elective position in 2023 up till Monday, May 16, 2022, to resign.
Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to newsmen after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja on Wednesday.
He said the President directed all Ministers with political ambitions to turn in their letters of resignation by next Monday.
Those affected are Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio; Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige; Science, Technology and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; and his Petroleum Resources counterpart, Timipre Sylva, who have joined the presidential race on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Others are the Minister of State for Mines and Steel, Uche Ogar, who is running for governorship position in Abia State; Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, who is gunning for Kebbi governorship; and the Minister of Women Affairs, Paulline Tallen, who declared her ambition to contest for the senatorial seat in Plateau State.
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