Former Governor Nyesom Wike hope to become a minister in the cabinet of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not yet lost, the magazine has learned.
An ally of the president, the immediate past Governor of Rivers state, though a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worked for Tinubu’s emergence as president during the presidential election, and sources said he has been promised a ministerial position as a reward.
But a recent report claimed that the president has dumped the former governor after he allegedly failed to be cleared by the Department of State Services, DSS.
The secret police, the report claimed last week, cited security issues as one of the reasons for its failure to clear Wike after investigating the ministerial nominees list sent to it by the president.
To add flesh to the report, the online newspaper claimed that the former governor verbally attacked President Tinubu after they met in Aso Rock, where he was informer that the DSS rejected him as part of the 36 nominees sent to the Senate for approval.
But the magazine learned that Wike is among the former governor names sent to the Senate on Wednesday for screening.
Apart from Wike, others in the list include former Governors Nasir El Rufai, Ben Ayade, Gboyega Oyetola, amongst others.
On Tuesday, Opeyemi Bamidele, Senate Leader told journalists in Abuja, the nation’s capital that the list will be made public today.
Recall that some governors of the PDP, later known as G5 had worked against their party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar during the February 25 presidential election, an action many claimed lead to the emergence of Tinubu as president and Commander-in-Chief.
