Joda Committee Recommend 19 Ministers, 17 Ministers of State For Buhari
The Ahmed
Joda-led Transition Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, to keep the number of federal ministries
at 19, nine less than the proposed 28.
The
Cable also reported that the advisory committee recommended that Buhari
should have only 19 senior ministers and 17 ministers of state, bringing the
total to 36 in fulfillment of the constitutional requirement of one minister
per state.
Previous
governments, starting from 1999, appointed 42 ministers — picking one from each
of the six geo-political zones in addition to one from each of the 36 states of
the federation.
The
immediate past president maintained 28 senior ministers and 14 ministers of
state, three of the ministries were directly under presidency.
The Joda
transition committee submitted its report to Buhari on June 11, but the
details, which the president is expected to evaluate before taking his initial
key steps, are yet to be made public.
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