BREAKING: Senate confirms Shekarau, Adeyeye, others as ministers
By Suleiman Bello
Senate on Wednesday afternoon confirmed former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, as a minister.
Shekarau was confirmed alongside Abu Bulama from Yobe State, Stephen Oru from Delta State, and Adedayo Adeyeye from Ekiti State.
Adedayo Adeyeye is a leader of the ruling party in Ekiti while Stephen Oru was National Vice-Chairman, South-South region of PDP
The new ministers were appointed following the resignations of some former ministers such as Yerima Ngama, former minister of state for finance; Caleb Olubolade, former minister of police affairs; and Godsday Orubebe, former minister of Niger Delta Affairs.
Shekarau, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, decamped to the PDP after the former’s structure in Kano was handed to the incumbent governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who had decamped from the PDP to the APC.