President Jonathan is billed to forward names of one new ministers to the national assembly very soon. Ministers in his cabinet are now gripped with fear since the president made his intension on the possible cabinet shake-up.
The anxiety among the ministers, it was further learnt, was heightened because they were not sure of the criteria that might be adopted to decide their fate and none of them is also privy to names on the new list.
According to reports, ministers who have ambitions to contest elections will form a chunk of those that will be leaving the cabinet soon.
For instance, Minister of Police Affairs, Navy-Cpt. Caleb Olubolade (retd.), is eyeing the Peoples Democratic Party ticket for the Ekiti State governorship election holding later in the year.
Other ministers who are eyeing the governorship seats of their states are Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku (Nassarawa); Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe (Delta) and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammed (Bauchi).
Others are Hajia Hadiza Mailafia, Environment; Ms. Ama Peppel, Housing; Minister of State for Power, Zainab Kuchi; Minister of State for Defence, Erelu Olusula Obada; Minister of State for Agriculture, Buka Tijani; and Science and Technology, Professor Ita Ewa.
Reports also have it that the Supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, who was deputy to former Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State is also eyeing a senatorial seat.
Another minster that could be shown the way out is the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, who has been enmeshed in a series of corruption and academic fraud scandals.
It would be recalled the President Jonathan sacked 9 ministers in his cabinets in 2013.
The sacked Ministers were; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olugbenga Ashiru; Minister of National Planning, Dr. Shamshudeen Usman, and Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, Minister of Education.
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