Goodluck Jonathan, over the weekend, sent another list of six prospective ministers to the Directorate of State Security, SSS, for security screening.
The names which were sent immediately after swearing in 12 new ministers, Saturday has the name of a prominent technocrat from Cross River State, Chief Edem Duke, as one of the nominees.
Chief Duke is credited with the TINAPA vision even before the Donald Duke government in Cross River State carried out the project construction.
Duke who is said to own Mirage Hotel in Calabar and was the former Chairman, Cross River State Chambers of Commerce and Industry was also a former spokesman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
The other nominee, also from the South South geo-political zone – and possibly to take the slot of the zone, is Ms Amal Pepple from Rivers State. Pepple was the former Head of Service of the Federation, HOS.
Her nomination may have signaled the dumping of a favourite godson of a very prominent South South leader – the godson was a late entrant to the last Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF.
From Jigawa State came another nominee, Alhaji Nurudeen Yusuf.
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