Reno Omokri has bared his mind into the recently released List of Ministers and their Portfolios.
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| Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike |
The List of Ministers and Portfolios was announced on Wednesday 16 August, 2023, and former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike announced Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Omokri said, the appointment of Nyesom Wike by President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu “will mark the first time a Southerner has been appointed FCT Minister”.
According to Reno Omokri: “The appointment by President Bola Tinubu of ex-Governor Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory will mark the first time a Southerner has been appointed FCT Minister since Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun was appointed to that position in 1976 by the then Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo.
“It has taken forty-seven years for a non-Northerner to occupy that position again And coincidentally, just like in 1976, the person was appointed by a fellow Southerner.
“Sadly, the original indigenes of the area now known as the Federal Capital Territory have never been appointed minister. Hopes had been high that the President would appoint the first FCT indigene ever nominated as a minister, Zephaniah Jisalo, to that position. But we have seen the way the cookie crumbled.”
