President Bola Tinubu has approved the redeployment of three Ministers.
This was contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale.
Engr. Abubakar Momoh has been redeployed from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development.
The Federal Ministry of Youth is to be re-assigned to a Minister-designate soon.
The Ministers-designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy have been reshuffled as follows:
(A) H.E. Adegboyega Oyetola is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy
(B) Hon. Bunmi Tunji-Ojo is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Interior
(C) Hon. Sa’idu Alkali is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Transportation
Furthermore, both Ministers of State in the Oil & Gas sector are now domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources with the following designations:
(i) Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri is the Hon. Minister of State (Oil), Petroleum Resources
(ii) Hon. Ekperipe Ekpo is the Hon. Minister of State (Gas), Petroleum Resources
The President also approved the renaming of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Ecological Management as the Federal Ministry of Environment.
“All aforementioned changes take immediate effect by the directives of the President,” he said in the statement.
The announcement came barely two days after the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, warned the president against scrapping the ministry after it was omitted in the list of ministries to be assigned ministers.
PANDEF in a statement by its National Leader, Edwin Clark and its National Chairman, Emmanuel Essien, reminded President Tinubu that the Niger Delta Ministry was created by former President, Umaru Yar’ Adua to among others, focus on the infrastructural development of the oil producing states of the country.
It warned of the grave consequences of scrapping or submerging the ministry.
