Ganduje Delays Release of Tinubu’s Ministerial List

President Bola Tinubu is in a race to beat the 60-day deadline for the formal presentation of the ministerial list to the Senate but has found governors and other interest groups as a roadblock.

Multiple sources say that with the notable exception of Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the immediate past governor of Kano State whose name is being dropped to enable him occupy the office of national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC that the list is all ready.

It was gathered that while some governors are unhappy with the list, the main cause of delay was the last-minute replacement of Ganduje on the list. As a sop for Ganduje who was reportedly earmarked for the position of Federal Capital Territory, it was gathered that the president has given him the liberty to produce his replacement from Kano.

The process of getting the replacement and subjecting such to the security checks of the Department of State Services, DSS it was gathered may have caused the formal presentation of the list in the Senate.

Senate sources had on Thursday morning assured GWG.ng that the list had arrived the office of the Senate President. However, a senior aide of the president of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio told GWG.ng that he was not aware of the list.

While one senator claimed that the list had arrived, another senator disclosed that All Progressives Congress, APC governors had “ambushed” the list because their interests were not sufficiently addressed.

GWG.ng is unable to confirm the specific interests not addressed or the point of ambush.

Meanwhile, a close political and personal aide of the president who has worked with him from Lagos has debunked the insinuation of lack of preparedness on the part of President Tinubu.

He spoke against the background of criticisms of the failure of the president to present his list of ministers almost two months after taking office and five months after being declared winner of the presidential election.

“Asiwaju is well prepared to be president and his plans and I can tell you from experience. But what we are finding here is that Asiwaju knows that Nigeria is not Lagos and he has to cater to multiple interests crossing across different interest groups.

“I can assure you that once the ministers are deployed Asiwaju is not one that will hands off like Buhari, he will be on top of the situation directly supervising ministers and you will see the change,” he said in assuring that the delay in the release of the ministerial list to the Senate was no reason to doubt Tinubu.

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