By Seyi Babalola
President Bola Tinubu’s second and final list of his ministerial nominees was yesterday submitted to the Nigeria Senate.
It contained 19 nominees; bringing the total to 47. He had a week earlier submitted to the same Senate a list containing 28 nominees.
A critical look at the list on a state-by-state basis, shows that six states of Cross River, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Buachi, and Niger have two ministers each and Ogun state has three.
It was also noticed that every goopolitical zone had one or two more except the South-east.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
South-South Zone-7
1 Akwa Ibom: Ekperikpe Ekpo
2 Bayelsa: Heineken Lolokpobri
3 Cross river: Betta Edu
4 Cross River: John Enoh
5 Delta: Stella Okotete
6 Edo: Abubakar Momoh
7 Rivers: Nyesom Wike
North East Zone.-8
8 Adamawa: Tahir Mamman
9 Bauchi: Yusuf M Tuggar
10 Bauchi: Ali Pate
11 Borno: Abubakar Kyari
12 Gombe: Alkali Ahmed Saidu
13 Taraba: Uba Maigari Ahmadu
14 Yobe: Ibrahim Geidam
15 Taraba: Sani A Danladi
North West zone-10
16 Jigawa: Mohamed Badaru
17 Kaduna: Nasir El-Rufai
18 Kano: Maryam Shetti
19 Kano: Abdullahi T Gwarzo
20 Katsina: Ahmad Dangiwa
21 Katsina: Hanatu Musawa
22 Kebbi: Yusuf Tanko Sununu
23 Kebbi: Atiku Bagudu
24 Sokoto: Bello M Goronyo
25 Zamfara: Bello Matawwalle
South East Zone.-5
26 Abia: Nkiru Onyejiocha
27 Anambra: Uju Ohaneye
28 Ebonyi: David Umahi
29 Enugu: Uche Nnaji
30 Imo: Doris Uzoka
South West Zone-9
31 Ekiti: Dele Alake
32 Lagos: Tunji Alausa
33 Lagos: Lola Ade John
34 Ogun: Ishak Salako
35 Ogun: Bosun Tijjani
36 Ogun: Olawale Edun
37 Ondo: Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo
38 Osun: Adegboyega Oyetola
39 Oyo: Adebayo Adelabu
North Central Zone-8
40 Benue: Joseph Utsev
41 FCT: Zephaniah Bitrus Jisalo
42 Kogi: Shuaibu A Audu
43 Kwara: Lateef Fagbemi
44 Nasarawa: Imaan S-Ibrahim
45 Niger: Mohammed Idris
46 Niger: Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
47 Plateau: Simon Lalong.
