President Muhammadu Buhari has given a deadline of May 16, 2023 to ministers with political ambitions to resign their appointments.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, drop the shocker while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of Federal Executive Council, presided over by President Buhari.
The ministers affected by the order are Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio; Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige; Science, Technology and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; Justice and Attorney General, Abubakar Malami, the Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, who have joined the presidential race on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Others are the Minister of State Mines and Steel, Uche Ogar, who is running for governorship position in Cross Rivers State, the Minister of Women Affairs, Paulline Tallen, who declared her ambition to contest for the senatorial seat in Plateau State.
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