Profiles of President Tinubu's 19 fresh ministerial nominees

If all of them scale Senate screening, Nigeria is poised to have its largest federal cabinet since 1999.Here is what you need to know about the new nominees.Mr Oyetola served a single term as governor of Osun State between 2018 and 2022. He ran for reelection again as the candidate of the in 2022 but was defeated by Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party .

However, before his entrance into public service, Mr Oyetola also served as Executive Vice Chairman of Paragon Group of Companies between 2005 and 2011. He was also Chairman of Ebony Properties Limited. He had also been a Director of Pyramid Securities Limited, until 2011. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute in London and Nigeria. He is also a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management .

In 2014, the US Department of Justice announced the repatriation of $480 million from the Abacha loot. In its complaint, the US government alleged that the late dictator, his son Mohammed, Mr Bagudu and others stole billions of dollars from the Nigerian government and others, then laundered the money through U financial institutions and the purchase of bonds backed by the United States.

Bello Matawalle became governor of Zamfara in fortuitous circumstances in 2019 but lost the seat after only one term Mr Lalong started his political career in 1998 when he was elected into the Plateau State House of Assembly from Shendam Constituency under the platform of the PDP. He became Speaker of the Assembly in 2000 but was removed from the position during his second term in 2006. His seven years on the seat made him the longest-serving speaker of the House. During that period, he was twice elected as the Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of the 36 states of Nigeria.

He had before then been a member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly from 1999 to 2003 and was Speaker of the House from June 1999 to May 2001.Mr Lokpobiri was first elected to the Senate from Bayelsa West district in 2007 and served in various Senate committees, including Sports, Public Accounts, Police Affairs, Niger Delta and Millennium Development Goals. He was Chairman of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Transport.

Before going to Abuja, he was appointed Commissioner of Information in Gombe State by then Governor Danjuma Goje as governor of the state.Mr Alkali sought to return to the Senate for the fifth time but lost the 2023 election to a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Dankwambo in a reversal of the 2019 result when Mr Alkali defeated Mr Dankwambo.

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