Barring last minute changes, President
Goodluck Jonathan may send a fresh list of ministerial nominees to the
Senate for consideration and approval.
Those being touted as possible nominees
include, a former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, his
counterpart in Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, and Senator Gbemi
Saraki from Kwara State.
Investigations by our correspondent
revealed that the Presidency, in its bid to boost home support for the
Peoples Democratic Party in some states, took the decision to pick the
politicians as ministers.
It was further learnt that the Senate
deferred the screening of Hajia Jamila Salik from Kano State last month
following a directive from the Presidency that the woman had been
dropped to pave the way for Kwakwanso.
The Presidency was also said to be
considering the nomination of Bafarawa to check the growing popularity
of the All Progressives Congress in the state and the rumoured ambition
of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to contest
the governorship election in 2015.
In the same vein, our correspondent
gathered that Saraki, the daughter of the late strongman of Kwara
politics, Senator Olusola Saraki, would be a comfortable bridge-builder
and accessible rallying point to deliver the state from the APC being
led by her elder brother, Bukola."punch"
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