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According to the sources that should know, the following persons have been shortlisted and considered to make his cabinet:It was learnt that a powerful lobby pushes for the return of the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria . Sanusi whose forte is risk management in banking, enjoys the blessing of Governor Nasiru El Rufai of Kaduna State who has the ears of the president-elect.
Sanusi, according to our source, is considered as a credible technocrat with strong character to sanitise the banking/financial sector now left limping following Emefiele’s bungled Naira swap policy. Tinubu camp, believed to be fiercely opposed to Emefiele not only because of the Naira redesign policy alleged to be targeted against the APC in the February 25 presidential poll, hold strongly that the nation’s economy is worse off after Emefiele’s policy as indicators suggest.
It was gathered that El-Rufai has been penciled to serve in Tinubu’s cabinet as secretary to government of the federation .“You know that the office of the SGF is more or less the coordinating point for ministers in any federal cabinet. Tinubu believes that the Kaduna governor who once served as minister has the capacity to galvanise ministers to effectively implement government policies.
Besides, Akume delivered for Tinubu and the APC in Benue State where the party displaced the governing Peoples Democratic Party , stopping the incumbent governor, Samuel Ortom, from retiring to the SenateMinister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, is also on the list, though he is merely being considered because of his role during the 2023 campaigns.
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