At Last, Osinbajo To Swear-in 2 Ministers Today - AgP Aide, Laolu Akande Confirms, Counters, Garba Shehu, Presidency

By Dansu Peter

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will today swear in two ministers who have been confirmed by the Senate for quite some time now but are yet to be inaugurated due to the continued absence of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State were cleared by the Senate on May 3 and have been waiting to be brought into the federal cabinet.

Mr. Laolu Akande, a media aide to the Acting President made the disclosure via his verified twitter handle @akandeoj.

Laolu twitted; "AgP Osinbajo would be swearing in the two new ministers already confirmed by the Senate tomorrow morning @ start of the Federal Exco meeting"

AgP Osinbajo would be swearing in the two new ministers already confirmed by the Senate tomorrow morning @ start of the Federal Exco meeting

— Laolu Akande (@akandeoj) July 25, 2017 

Meanwhile, the report of Osinbajo swearing the Ministers was earlier reported by Premium Times but was tagged as false by President Buhari's media aide, Shehu Garba.

Garba Shehu in a tweet after Premium Times report twitted saying

The story on Premium Times that @FemAdesina, @akandeoj & I provided confirmation that two new ministers are to be sworn in tomorrow is false

— Garba Shehu 🇳🇬 (@GarShehu) July 25, 2017

Garba Shehu's Stance was buttressed by the Presidency at its official twitter handle @NGRPresident saying

2/ @GarShehu tweet stands. The confirmation of tomorrow's swearing-in is a new development,not discussed at the press briefing earlier today https://t.co/4nSaDdhwjF

— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) July 25, 2017 

Shortly after, Laolu Akande reaffirmed Premium Times report, saying

1/ In line w/ @GarShehu tweet below, no confirmation was provided on this matter by the spokespersons AT THEIR PRESS BRIEFING earlier today https://t.co/4nSaDdhwjF

— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) July 25, 2017

Garba is right. We didn't confirm swearing-in at briefing: we were not ready then because all formalities were'nt in place. Now they are.

— Laolu Akande (@akandeoj) July 25, 2017 

No doubt, this Presidency is divided as the aides to Buhari and Osinbajo are seen countering each other on official information.