BREAKING: Buhari asks Amaechi, Malami, others seeking elective positions to resign

By Akinwande Soji-Ojo

All members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) seeking elective positions have been asked to resign on or before Monday, May 16, 2023.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said the ministers have been given up till May 16, 2022, to quit the cabinet.

Mohammed added that only Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as an elected official was exempted.

The minister said he did not have the mandate to talk on the fate of other political appointees who are also vying for elective positions but are not members of the cabinet.

Some members of cabinet have already picked up their expression of interest and nomination forms in order to secure the presidential, governorship, and legislative tickets on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The federal cabinet members who picked the forms to get the APC presidential ticket include Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio; Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige; Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; as well as Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva.

The Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogar, has obtained governorship nomination forms to get APC ticket in Abia State, while the Minister of Women Affairs, Paulline Tallen, had declared her ambition to contest a senatorial seat in Plateau State.

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has equally declared hia intention to contest the APC governorship ticket in Kebbi State.