President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all ministers vying for any elective office in 2023 to resign on or before Monday 16th of May.
The decision was announced to them during the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) chaired by the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, confirmed this to state house correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting.
He said he did not have the mandate to talk on the fate of other political appointees who are also vying for elective positions but are not members of the cabinet.
Only the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is excluded whom he affirmed was an elected official.
Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Emeka Nwajiuba, Chris Ngige and Timipre Sylva, Godswill Akpabio are by this directive expected to resign their ministerial positions since they have already picked up their expression of interest and nomination forms for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Others are the Minister of State Mines and Steel, Uche Ogar, who is running for governorship position in Abia State, the Minister of Women Affairs, Paulline Tallen, who declared her ambition to contest for the senatorial seat in Plateau State as well as the Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami who is being rumoured to be interested in contesting for governorship in Kebbi state.
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Editor Paul Akhagbemhe
