Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, swore in Professor Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Alhaji Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) as Ministers.
Osinbajo affirmed that Ocheni and Hassan, by their antecedents, are evidently capable of playing their part to turn the country around.
He stated that the new Ministers were key to the administration’s economic reform programme, as well as the fights against insecurity and corruption.
“On the anti corruption fight, we are focused, we believe that the primary thing is for those of us who have the privilege of serving to ensure that by our own points and actions we support the anti-corruption fight and also that our conducts will be exemplary so that we will show, by practice not just by words, that we are determined to ensure that this country is run by a good government.
“And where there is honesty and integrity, service will be delivered. Even as I welcome you to this cabinet, I congratulate friends and family who are here and I can only say going by your antecedence as contained in your resumes read out, it is evident that you are deserving of positions held in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that you are capable of rendering all the task that will be given to you.
“The only reward is more hard work and I wish you the best as minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We welcome you to the Federal Executive Council where you have just been sworn in from being ministerial nominees, to ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The portfolios will be announced shortly. From this moment they will join the Federal Executive Council and will sit in our meeting this morning. So, Prof. and Alhaji, you will not have time to celebrate much this morning. You will have full meeting today,” Osinbajo said.
