In new appointments, President Tinubu has announced the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Cardoso for confirmation as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He has additionally nominated four others as Deputy Governors of the CBN. They include Emem Nnana Usoro, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo, Philip Ikeazor and Bala Bello. \u00a0The President also nominated Jamila Ibrahim (Kwara State) and Ayodele Olawande (Ondo State) for appointment as Minister of Youth and Minister of State for Youth, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both the ministerial nominations and the nominations for the leadership\nof the CBN are subject to Senate\nconfirmation. It is expected that upon resumption of the Senate from its long\nrecess, the nominees will be invited for screening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nomination of Dr. Cardoso as CBN Governor comes amidst the\nsuspension of Godwin Emefiele as CBN Governor in June 2023. He has since been\nheld in the custody of the Department for State Services (DSS), while a Deputy\nGovernor of the CBN, Folashodun Shonubi took over as Acting CBN Governor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to section 11 of the CBN Act 2007, the Governor, a Deputy\nGovernor or Director of the CBN may cease to hold office for several grounds,\nincluding removal by the President, supported by two-thirds majority of the\nSenate. The latter requirement appeared to be left unsatisfied in the removal\nprocess of Emefiele\u2019s predecessor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Sanusi served as CBN\nGovernor between 2009 and 2014 and was also suspended by President Goodluck\nJonathan without the two-thirds majority vote of the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will be recalled that President Tinubu assigned portfolios to\nMinisters-designate and swore them in,\nin August 2023, after the confirmation of three out of his 48 ministerial\nnominees was left pending over security clearance issues. Ahead of the swearing\nin ceremony, the President reshuffled his cabinet, which saw the reassignment\nof Abubakar Momoh (Edo State) from the Ministry of Youth to the Niger Delta Development\nCommission (NDDC) Ministry. Now, the President has made two nominations for the\nMinistry of Youth. However, the slot for Minister of Environment is still yet\nto be filled, although the Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Ishaq Salako\nhas taken charge of the ministry\u2019s \naffairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three nominees who did not receive Senate confirmation are from\nDelta, Kaduna and Taraba States. While there are other nominees who were\nconfirmed as Ministers from Delta and Taraba States, there is currently no\nMinister from Kaduna State in President Tinubu\u2019s cabinet. It is unclear whether\nthe President has concluded his ministerial appointments. However, it is\nimportant to note that Sections 14 (3) and 147 (3) and of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution require the\nPresident to give effect to the Federal Character Principle in ministerial\nappointments by appointing at least one Minister from each State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In new appointments, President Tinubu has announced the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Cardoso for confirmation as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He has additionally nominated four others as Deputy Governors of the CBN. They include Emem Nnana Usoro, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo, Philip Ikeazor and Bala Bello. \u00a0The President also nominated Jamila […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}