President Bola Tinubu Told Who to Appoint Minister of Information
- The Senate on Monday, August 7, confirmed 45 ministerial nominees sent by President Bola Tinubu after screening them
- Among the ministers-designate is Henry Dele Alake, a long-time ally of President Tinubu; Alake is a media practitioner
- In an interview with Legit.ng, veteran writer, Bamidele Johnson, tipped the immediate past special adviser on media and publicity to the president to be appointed minister of Information
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Ikeja, Lagos state - A communications specialist, Bamidele Johnson, on Tuesday, August 8, picked Dele Alake as the ideal candidate for the Minister of Information position.
In a chat with Legit.ng, Johnson said Alake’s expertise makes him the right man for the Information ministry.
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Ministerial list: ‘Dele Alake has the tools’
Johnson, however, tasked Alake on credibility in the event he is assigned to head the Ministry of Information.
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He told Legit.ng:
“He's functioned in a similar capacity at the state level and under the same man. He expresses himself with clarity. He needs to make himself believable, which is something Information Ministers hardly manage to do. But he has the tools.”
Ministerial list's first batch
Earlier, Legit.ng wrote on the kinds of people President Tinubu appointed as ministers.
After several weeks of anticipation, Nigeria's president, Tinubu, finally unveiled the list of the ministers he’d like to work with, those available for ‘service’ to the struggling nation.
President Tinubu, dubbed Nigeria’s political kingmaker, didn’t spring up real surprises.
How many women made Tinubu's ministerial list?
Legit.ng also published a piece of the women who made it to President Tinubu's ministerial list.
28 people, including seven women, made President Tinubu's ministerial list (first batch).
Nigeria has been recording low participation of women in both elective and appointive positions. Legit.ng writes on the incoming women ministers.
Wike, El Rufai's ministerial nomination
In another news, Legit.ng reported that Bayo Onanuga, the director of Media and Publicity of the defunct Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima Campaign, on Thursday, July 27, sent a congratulatory message to all the ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Onanuga, in a Twitter post, prayed for prosperity for the incoming appointees.
Source: Legit.ng
