President Buhari’s ministerial nominees–Part 2

Ngige

Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige
Born on August 8, 1952, he was governor of Anambra State from May 29, 2003 to March 17, 2006 under the People Democratic Party (PDP). He is currently a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He was elected Senator for Anambra Central Constituency in April 2011.

Ngige’s tenure as a Senator of the Federal Republic came to an end following his defeat in the 2015 election by Uche Ekwunife, who has been sworn in as the Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the current 8th National Assembly of Nigeria.

A medical doctor by profession, Ngige graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1979. He immediately went into the civil service, serving at the National Assembly and State House clinics at different times. He retired in 1998 as a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Health.
Thereafter, Ngige turned to politics, becoming a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). By 1999, he was Assistant National Secretary and Zonal Secretary of PDP in the South East region of the country.

In 2003, he was elected governor of Anambra State in controversial circumstances. He quickly broke ranks with his political godfather, Chris Uba, brother of Andy Uba, after an unsuccessful attempt on July 10, 2003, to have him removed from office, through a fabricated letter of resignation, which the state assembly accepted. However, in August 2005, an election Tribunal led by Justice Nabaruma nullified Ngige’s 2003 victory.

Amina Mohammed

Amina Mohammed
Born in 1961, Amina Mohammed is the United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. She was appointed to this position on June 7, 2012.
She has been working in the field of development for over 30 years both in the public sector and the private sector. Prior to her current appointment, she was the CEO and founder of the think tank Centre for Development Policy Solutions.

Previously, she worked as senior adviser to the President of Nigeria (the late Musa Yardua and Goodluck Jonathan) on Millennium Development Goals for six years. In this position, she was in charge of designing and developing government projects to reduce poverty around the country.
Between 1981 and 1991, she worked with Archcon Nigeria in association with Norman and Dawbarn United Kingdom.
In 1991, she founded Afri-Projects Consortium, a multidisciplinary firm of Engineers and Quantity Surveyors, and from 1991 to 2001 she was its Executive Director.

Between 2002 and 2005, she worked in the United Nations Millennium Project as a coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education.
She has also served on many international advisory boards and panels such as, the Gates Foundation and the UN Secretary General’s Global Sustainability Panel.

Kemi Adeosun
Born and brought up in London, her father was a civil servant and she is the third of four children. A graduate of Economics from the University of East London, she was a senior manager at the Price Waterhouse Coopers, London. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales. She is a mother of three.

A finance professional with over 23 years experience gained in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. Adeosun is a member of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales, as well as Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the head of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Debo Adeniran, has described the ministerial nominee from Ogun State, as a misfit for the task if eventually confirmed by the Nigerian Senate.

In a petition titled: Kemi Adeosun’s Ministerial Nomination; CACOL Discovers Another Misfit, Adeniran said after running through the list, he and other concerned Nigerians, cannot pretend to be comfortable with some names, prominent among which is that of Kemi Adeosun, the former Finance Commissioner in Ogun State of Nigeria.

The group had in a statement issued last week accused the former commissioner of dual citizenship, fraud, awarding contracts to her husband, manipulation of government records, and living above her income.
It said in a statement titled, Ten Things People Need to Know About Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Former Commissioner for Finance, Ogun State, alleged that Adeosun’s four-year stint in Ogun State left behind a trail of financial mismanagement, immeasurable ineptness and unspoken avarice.

IBETO

Ahmed Musa Isa Ibeto
Musa Ibeto, former Niger State deputy governor, is an astute politician and grassroots’ man. He was one of the people, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party in November 2014. The deputy governor had lost the state governorship election to Umar Nasko.
Ibeto served as a protocol officer to former governor Abdulkadir Kure, he was also a local council chairman, a member of Federal House of Representatives, representing Rijau/Magama Federal Constituency and deputy governor for over seven years.

Suleiman Hussain Adamu
A civil engineer by training, he graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University in 1984, winning the Nigeria Port Authority Prize as the best graduating student. Twenty years after, he bagged M. Sc. (Project Management) University of Reading, UK.

He has had several years’ professional experience, seven years of which was gained in the public sector. Has been in the consulting industry since 1989. Co-founded Integrated Engineering Associates (IEA), in 1987, a leading firm of civil/structural, electrical, mechanical and environmental engineering consultancy based in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Has been involved in the planning, supervision and management of several building and civil engineering projects in Nigeria, mainly office/commercial structures, roads and water supply schemes.

In the past few years, the scope of his experience has been further widened, following his secondment as Principal Consultant with Afri-Projects Consortium, Management Consultants to the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, where he was actively involved in the planning and preparation of several national infrastructural projects in the health, education, transportation, agriculture, water resources and energy sectors.

At implementation stage, he served as Project Manager on several projects, notably under the PTF Urban/Semi-Urban, Regional and Rural Water Supply Programmes, National Farm Power Machinery Rehabilitation Programme and National Waterways Development Project (Dredging of River Niger).
He is at present the Vice-president of ACEN, Association of Consulting Engineers in Nigeria.

Solomon Dalong
A lawyer, representing Plateau State, Barrister Solomon Dalong was born on September 26, 1964, in the town of Sabon Gida, Langtang South Local Council.

Dalong had his primary education at LEA Primary School Sabon Gida from 1971 to 1977. He then went to Government College, Keffi, currently in Nassarawa State, for his secondary education. He joined the Nigerian Prisons Service, thereafter.
Dalong studied law at the University of Jos, graduating in 1999. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Bwari, in Abuja, graduated in 2000 and was called to the Bar in 2001.

He was Personal Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar, when former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, appointed Lar as Adviser Emeritus. He became a lecturer in 2004, at his alma mater, the Faculty of Law of the University of Jos. He was appointed the Chairman of Langtang South Local Government Area the same year.