President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, formally inaugurated his cabinet 84 days after taking the oath of office for a second term, Igbere TV reports.
Igbere TV had reported that 43 new Ministers (including the SGF) were sworn in at the presidential villa, Abuja, after taking oath of office.
Some slight changes were however, observed from the portfolio assigned them. About 13 ministers who had served under the President’s first term were returned, with some retaining their former positions.
Igbere TV gathers some former cabinet members who retained similar roles to include;
Muhammed Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory; Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation and Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who all served in Buhari’s first term.
All the 13 ministers from the old cabinet are to continue with the portfolios they had in the old cabinet except for the following;
Babatunde Fashola, Osagie Ehanire, Rotimi Amaechi and Zainab Ahmed whose roles were slightly changed.
While Power was removed from Fashola’s brief, and Aviation carved out of Amaechi’s Transportation, Ehanire was elevated from Minister of State for Health to the Minister of Health while Ahmed’s Ministry was expanded to Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
This is even as the President retained his position as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, a position he has held since 2015. He named Timipre Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa, as his subordinate (Minister of State for Petroleum). Ibe Kachukwu, who was in that role, did not make it to the new cabinet.
