Buhari Ministerial List Obasanjo, Tinubu reportedly at war over nominees

The trouble started when Tinubu nominated
former Lagos State Commissioner for
Finance, Wale Edun as Finance Minister to fill
the Ogun State slot.

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and the
National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu are reportedly
at war over President Muhammadu Buhari’s
ministerial nominees.
According to New Telegraph, the trouble
started when Tinubu nominated former Lagos
State Commissioner for Finance, Wale Edun
as Finance Minister to fill the Ogun State
slot.
Obasanjo is said to have subsequently called
the APC leader and warned him against
choosing Edun for Ogun when his work and
career were rooted in Lagos State.
According to sources, the former president’s
recent visits to Buhari were based on his
nominations for the ministerial list.
According to New Telegraph, some of
Obasanjo’s nominees include: former Osun
State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola
(Osun); former Governor of Ekiti State and
now the Deputy National Chairman (South) of
the APC, Chief Segun Oni (Ekiti); Mustapha
(Ogun); former Minister of Education, Mrs.
Oby Ezekwesili and former Governor, Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma
Soludo.
“Tinubu and Akande’s visit to President
Buhari on September 9 was an impromptu
meeting. An influential official in the
presidency told them of Obasanjo’s
surreptitious moves to corner the ministerial
nominees from the South-West. This is why
the two leaders visited,” a source said.
Obasanjo visited Buhari on September 8 while
Tinubu visited the president on September 9.
The APC leader however denied that his visit
to Buhari was in connection with the
president’s ministerial list.
Buhari is set to name his ministers before
September 30 despite recently saying that
ministers are just noisemakers like
politicians.