2nd Ministerial List: Odimegwu, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Prof. Nnaji, May Be On List • President Won't Be Oil Minister

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday forwarded the second list containing 15 names to the Senate in a sealed envelope.
Sources stated the list may include the names of Chief Festus Odimegwu, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Prof. Barth Nnaji, Chief Ike Emenike, Alhaji Mohammed Bello and Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN).
Others are: Isaac Adewale, Anthony Anwula, Dan Ali, Okechukwu Enilamah, Cladius Daramola, Heineken Lokpobiri and James Ocholi.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Eg and his colleague in the House of Representatives, Abdurahman Sumaila, submitted the list to Senate President Bukola Saraki in his office around 4:24pm yesterday.
Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, who confirmed this, explained that Saraki would not open the envelope until today during plenary when he was expected to read the list before his colleagues.
In another development, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, stated Buhari has no intention to be Minister of Petroleum Resources but would only supervise the ministry.
He stated in a television interview: “He is not going to be designated as minister but will supervise the ministry. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo while in office supervised that ministry for six years, was he called a petroleum minister? No, he was not.”
“The president is going to supervise and maybe, he would have Minister of State to work along with him. I dare say, he has all it takes to supervise that ministry having been oil minister for three and a half years in the past.
Buhari would respect the constitution. And the constitution says ministers must be appointed from each state and that means there must be minimum of 36 ministers. He would respect that.
Adesina added that the age of the ministerial nominees does not matter to the president: “These people who have been nominated are qualified and are Nigerians. Talking of age, there is a saying that ‘age does not matter. It does not mind, if you don’t mind it.’ I don’t think that age is an issue. ”