{"id":52977,"date":"2019-08-02T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=52977"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:20:59","slug":"presidency-disowns-list-of-ministers-with-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/presidency-disowns-list-of-ministers-with-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency disowns list of ministers with portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presidency on Friday disowned a list of ministers-designate and portfolios currently in circulation, especially on the social media.<\/p>\n

It said President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to assign portfolios to the 43 ministers-designate who were confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, made this known in a message he posted on his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n

Ahmad said Buhari would only announce portfolios after he must have inaugurated the cabinet members.<\/p>\n

He wrote, \u201cSo someone decided to sit down and make a list of ministers-designate and also assigned portfolios to them?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assigned list is now being circulated and is trending on WhatsApp as usual.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisregard any list please. Portfolios will be announced by Mr President after their inauguration as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the list that is in circulation, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN) was assigned to the Ministry of Justice; Mr Rauf Aregbesola was named the Minister of Budget and National Planning while Mrs Paulen Tallen was assigned to the Ministry of Women Affairs among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Presidency on Friday disowned a list of ministers-designate and portfolios currently in circulation, especially on the social media. It said President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to assign portfolios to the 43 ministers-designate who were confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday. The President\u2019s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, made this known in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3915,2234,3916,1021],"class_list":["post-52977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bashir-ahmad","tag-festus-keyamo","tag-ministers","tag-muhammadu-buhari","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}