REVEALED: Minister of State Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, resigned April 28
Minister of State Education, Emeka Nwajiuba resigned from office on April 28, WesternPost has gathered.
This is against media reports that he resigned today after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered all his appointees interested in seeking elective positions to resign before Monday, May 16.
According to many sources in the presidential villa who spoke to WesternPost on the condition of anonymity, the junior education minister’s resignation was received officially by President Muhammadu Buhari after he had dropped it on April 28.
“Nwajiuba actually resigned on April 28, a day after he picked the APC (All Progressives Congress) presidential nomination and expression of interest forms. His resignation was then accepted by President Buhari a week later last Thursday,” the villa source told WesternPost.
“It was on that basis that President Buhari ordered all the other ministers to take a cue from him by resigning latest by Monday.”
Nwajiuba was also the first APC presidential aspirant to pick the forms on April 27.
WesternPost had reported that President Buhari ordered all his ministers interested in contesting in the 2023 elections to resign before Monday.
Expected to resign are Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio; Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige; Science, Technology and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, all of whom have joined the presidential race on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Abubakar Malami, is also contesting for the governorship election in Kebbi State on the ticket of APC, while Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah, is vying for the governorship seat in Abia State.
Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen is also vying for the Plateau South Senatorial seat in the 2023 general elections, while Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Tayo Alasoadura is also hoping to make a return to the red chamber to represent Ondo Central Senatorial District.
