Tuesday 13 October 2015

Previous Public Offices Held By Ministerial Nominees


Below is a compilation of the previous public offices held by some of the nominees.



1. Babatunde Raji Fashola (Lagos state)

He served as Chief of Staff to his predecessor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and also the Honourable Commissioner to the governor’s office.
Secretary of the Lands Sub-Committee of the Transitional Work Groups (1999).
Panel Member on allocation of houses on Mobolaji Johnson Housing Scheme Lekki (2000).
Member of the State Tenders Board (2002-2006).
Member of the State Security Council (2002-2006).
Chairman Ad-Hoc committee on review of asset distribution among local government.
Executive governor of Lagos State (2007 – 2015).

2. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers state)

Active member of the National Union of Rivers State students (NURSS) and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
Secretary, defunct Nigerian republican convention, Ikwerre local government.
State caretaker committee secretary, Democratic Party of Nigeria.
Special Assistant to then Rivers state deputy governor (1992 – 1994).
Speaker, Rivers state House of Assembly (1999 – 2007)
Chairman of Nigeria’s Conference of Speakers of State Assemblies
Executive governor of Rivers state (2007 – 2015)
Chairman, Nigerian Governor’s Forum
Director general of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Committee (2015).


3. Kayode Fayemi John (Ekiti state)

Board Member, Lewisham Regeneration Challenge Board, UK (1991 – 1992).
Overseas representative, campaign for democracy, Nigeria (1992 – 1996).
Chair, New Nigeria Forum (1994 – 1997).
Adviser, British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (1994 – 1997).
Secretary General, Media Empowerment for Africa (The Radio Foundation), 1995 – 1997.
Director, Centre for Democracy & Development (1997–2006).
Policy Adviser, Ekiti State Government (1999 – 2003)
Founding chairman, Progressive Governors’ Forum (2013).
Governor of Ekiti state (2010 – 2014).
Chairman, APC’s Presidential Primaries Convention Committee (2014).
Director, Policy, Strategy and Research Directorate, APC Presidential Campaign Council (2015).

4. Hon. Ahmed Musa Ibeto (Niger state)
Elected chairman of the then Magama local government under the zero party system.
State chairman of the National Republican Convention (NRC) Party (1990).
State secretary of the National Republican Convention (1990 – 1992).
State secretary of the defunct United Nigeria Centre Party (1995 – 1996 ) and All Nigeria Peoples’ Party (1998 – 1999).
Senior special assistant on protocol matters to the immediate past governor (1999 – 2003).
Deputy to Governor Babangida Aliyu from 2007 – 2015).

5. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Kano)

Aide De Camp to chief of army staff (1979)
Commanded military police units & served as special investigator (1984 – 1985)
Registrar, Nigerian Defence Academy (1993 – 1999)
Chief instructor, support weapon wing of the infantry centre & school (1999 – 2001)
Directing staff at national war college (2004 – 2006)
General officer commanding 2nd division, Ibadan (2007 – 2008)
Chief of army staff (2008 – 2010)
Chairman of CPC security committee (2011)
Director in charge of intelligence & security of the apc presidential campaign (2015).

6. Aisha Jumai Al-Hassan (Taraba)

Magistrate Grade II in Kaduna State (1988)
Attorney General and the commissioner for Justice, Taraba state (1997).
Chief Magistrate in FCT (1996).
FCT Judicial Service Committee Secretary (2002).
Senator representing Taraba North Senatorial District in the 7th National Assembly (2011 – 2015).

7. Ibrahim Usman Jibril

Secretary of the Technical committee on rural lands within the FCT
Land use and allocation committee of the FCT.
Ministerial committee for the appraisal of physical planning and development issues within the FCT
Project manager of Nasarawa Geographic Information System (NAGIS).
Deputy director of Development Control Abuja.
SSA in Governor Tanko Al-makura’s cabinet.

8. Solomon Dalung (Plateau)

Assistant Inspector of Prisons.
Legal Officer II in the prisons headquarters.
Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar, CON, when Lar was appointed as Adviser Emeritus to former president Olusegun Obasanjo. This job lasted until 2003.
Chairman of Langtang South local government area (2007).
Plateau state deputy chairman and chairman of Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGON).
Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu
Honourable Member of the Oyo state House of Assembly (1979 – 1983).
Oyo state commissioner for information, culture and home affairs (in the Olunloyo administration) between October and December, 1983.
Attorney General and Oyo state commissioner for Justice (in the Ladoja government).

9. Sen. Sirika Hadi (Katsina)

Senator representing Katsina North senatorial district (2011-2015)
Member of the federal House of Representatives (2003 – 2007).

10. Kemi Adeosun (Ogun)

Senior manager of Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Commissioner for finance, Ogun state.

11. Engineer Suleiman Adamu Hussein (Jigawa)

Principal Consultant with Afri-Projects Consortium, Management Consultants to the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, where he was actively involved in the planning and preparation of several national infrastructural projects in the health, education, transportation, agriculture, water resources and energy sectors.
At implementation stage he served as Project Manager on several projects, notably under the PTF Urban/Semi-Urban, Regional and Rural Water Supply Programmes, National Farm Power Machinery Rehabilitation Programme and National Waterways Development Project (Dredging of River Niger).
Seconded to Afri-Projects Consortium (APC) under a special IEA/APC partnering agreement as Principal Consultant and Head of Planning, Directorate of Engineering Services, for the PTF Management Consulting service. Was actively involved in the planning, coordination and management of the following PTF programmes.

12. Amina J. Mohahmmed (Kaduna)

Executive Director, Afri-Projects Consortium; Engineering Firm (1991 – 2001)
Coordinator, Task Force on Gender and Education United Nations Millennium Project (2002 – 2005).
Senior special assistant to the Nigerian President, Millenium Development Goals (2006 – 2012).
Presently the special adviser of the United Nation’s Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Goals.

13. Abubakar Malami (Kebbi)

National legal adviser (CPC).
Chairman, APC Kano state congress appeals committee (May 2014).
Member, APC constitution sub-committee (June 2014).
Member, National Convention and Congress Committee (2013).
Member, APC electoral committee for Anambra state gubernatorial election (2013).

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