Former Governor of Kano State and former All Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate during the 2011 general elections, Ibrahim Shekarau, was among the four people whose names President Goodluck Jonathan sent to the Senate for confirmation as ministers in his cabinet on Wednesday.
The three others are: Abdul Bulama from Yobe State, Adedayo Adeyeye, leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, and Stephen Oruh, the National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Delta State.
A letter conveying their nomination was read out during plenary at the Senate by Senate President Davis Mark.
Jonathan, in the letter, told the senators that the nomination followed the tenets of the constitution, quoting section 147 sub section 2 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
“I have the honour to forward the under-listed ministerial nominees for consideration for senate confirmation,” read the letter, which had the nominees’ curriculum vitae attached.
Shekarau, was recently received in the PDP after he decamped from the All Progressives Congress following a political battle he had with his successor, Musa Kwankwaso.
Shekarau was angry that the APC had delivered the control of the state apparatus of the party to the incumbent governor as promised defecting governors by the APC.
Many believe that his nomination is primarily to assist in delivering Kano to President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
