“That the President will drop some ministers is a foregone conclusion. Security agencies have received names of those who will replace them,” a source told Punch in Abuja on Sunday. Already, President Goodluck Jonathan has sent the names of men and women being considered for ministerial appointments to the State Security Services for screening.
A source in the Presidency said that a former Special Adviser on the Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, is on the list. Others, it was gathered, included a former Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Hamisu Mai Rago; the immediate past acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Kawu Baraje; and former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Ada Okwuonu.
A former National Chairman, the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; ex-Governor Chukwuemeka Ezeife; former PDP National Organising Secretary, Uche Secondus; former PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Rufai Alkali; former PDP National Legal Adviser, Olusola Oke; Senator Abba Aji and some of the aspirants who withdrew for the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, at the party’s last national convention, were said to be on the list. From what Olufamous.com gathered from reliable sources in the seat of power in Abuja, the SSS would begin the screening of the nominees in a few day from now.
