Yuguda appoints 1,000 aides, reshuffles cabinet

From Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state has approved the appointment of 1, 000 aides and carried out a minor cabinet reshuffle. 

The new aides consist of 56 senior special assistants, 289 special assistants and 607 personal assistants. The appointment of the new aides was announced yesterday, in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Ibrahim Ahmed Dandija. 

Sources disclosed that the appointment of the aides is part of the governor's strategy to secure a second term in 2011, as majority of the appointees are active politicians. 

The appointees, the sources added are to work assiduously for Yuguda to enable him achieve his ambition of winning re-election. 

Also, contained in the statement by Ibrahim, was the minor cabinet reshuffle endorsed by the governor in which four commissioners were dropped from the cabinet but were re-appointed as special advisers. 

The commissioners who now became special advisers are Salisu Zakari Ningi, Samaila Tella, Dahiru Garba and Mohammed Jibrin Lago. 

The only commissioner dropped from the cabinet is Dr. Altine Lawal Bello, who before now was commissioner for science and technology. 

Moreover, the governor appointed a new cabinet member, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed Aminu, who will now oversee the ministry of higher education. 

Four old commissioners were also re-assigned in the cabinet shake up with Yusuf Musa Gumli moving from the education ministry to that of information while Yakubu Bello Kirfi was moved from the justice ministry and now heads the culture and tourism ministry. 

Similarly, Captain Bala Mohammed Jibrin was re-deployed from higher education ministry to the ministry of science and technology just as Yakubu Y. Abdullahi formerly the commissioner for commerce and industries is now in-charge of cooperative and poverty alleviation. 

In a related development, the governor further approved for his deputy, Babayo Garba Gamawa to double as the commissioner for land and survey. 

Governor Yuguda has also approved the upgrading of the Bauchi state Youth and Women Rehabilitation and Development Agency into a full-fledged commission. 


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Austin Ekanem  - What is this?   |edede80.88.137.xxx |2010-01-28 07:30:10
Yuguda must be suffering from something I cannot decipher! What democracy is
this, when a state official will unabashedly use state funds and apparatus in
the name of incumbency to perpertuate himself in power. What are all these
clowns going to be doing for the state? Who is playing them? What part of the
state budget covered for this madness? This is sheer insanity!
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enesi  - only in nigeria   |edede80.88.152.xxx |2010-01-28 07:41:42
It is only in Nigeria that something like this can happen in the public's eye
and all we do about it is comment and it keeps on happening over and over again,
it's a shame indeed!
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emma  - SHAME TO YOU, YOU INVALID!!!!   |edede128.169.2.xxx |2010-02-01 22:02:34
This man is insane and needs help very URGRNTLY. 1000 aides? Even blind NY
governor in the US who runs a budget far more than our national budget will
chuckle at this. We don't blame him and his cohorts since they only sit down on
their mats and wait for the national cake baked in Niger-delta. Bauchi state
only manufactures and exports religious riots. Shame to you.
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