Politics
Buhari And His 12 Secret PDP Disciples
By Emmanuel Aziken
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated the 44 member cabinet that is expected to help him take the country to the next level as canvassed during the campaign. Among the ministers were 12 who played different roles in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
However, as if acting a script, their previous roles in the former ruling party were carefully masked during the inauguration on Wednesday as thier background in the former ruling party was completely covered up.
The All Progressives Congress, APC next level campaign was indeed, wholly conceived to take the country higher following the change that came after what the administration has repeatedly claimed as the 16 years of the holocaust under the PDP.
Remarkably, as the ministers were inaugurated on Wednesday, the master of ceremonies, Mr. Femi Adesina, repeatedly exalted the roles played by some of the key APC activists in the campaigns that brought Buhari to power.
He mentioned the historic roles folks like Sharon Ikeazor, Abubakar Malami, Boss Mustapha played in the years prior to the emergence of Buhari as power.
It was, however, a different kettle of fish when it came to some of the well known former PDP activists.
As he introduced all 12 of them who served in different positions in the PDP administrations at federal and state levels, Mr. Adesina just mentioned their offices without mentioning the party under which they served unlike what he did to the aboriginal APC ministers.
Just as Jesus Christ had twelve disciples who came out of the world into a higher-level relationship with God, Buhari’s twelve ministers who came out from the PDP were on Wednesday bursting with gusto in a determination to go to a higher level with Buhari.
12 of the 44 ministers representing 27% who had their political DNA in the PDP include:
| NAME | ROLE IN PDP |
| Godswill Akpabio | Two-term commissioner, two-term Governor, and Senate Minority leader. He was a staunch PDP activist who was in the frontline against the coming of the APC in 2015 |
| Timipire Sylva | Special Assistant to Minister of Petroleum, One term governor of Bayelsa State |
| Chris Ngige | PDP Assistant National Secretary reputed to have institutional memory of the PDP traditions. He was also a one-term governor of Anambra State |
| Rotimi Amaechi | Two-term Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly Two Term Governor of Rivers State |
| George Akume | Two-term governor of Benue State; One-term Senator |
| Gbemisola Saraki | One-term member of House of Representatives from Kwara; two-term Senator. |
| Goody Agba | PDP Governorship Aspirant in Cross Rivers State who almost took control of the party from Gov. Liyel Imoke |
| Mohammed Abdullahi | Served different PDP administrations in Nasarawa State |
| Pauline Tallen | Minister, Deputy governor of Plateau State |
| Sunday Dare | Served as Special Assistant to Prof. Dora Akinyuli in the PDP administration of President Umaru Yar`Adua |
| Mahmmadu Maigari | Close political associate of Senator Aliyu Wamakko. Moved with Wamakko into and out of the PDP |
| Ikechukwu Ogar | Was a close associate of GovernorT.A. Orji and sponsor of the PDP in Abia State. Was one of those listed by the Orji family for succession. |
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