President Muhammadu Buhari sent
the list of his ministerial nominees to the senate on Tuesday. However, only
seven women made it to the list that has 43 names. This means that women have
only 16 percent of the proposed cabinet.
There were six women in his first
list of 36 in 2015, 16 per cent.
Former president Goodluck
Jonathan achieved over 30 percent with his appointments during his tenure.
PAULINE TALLEN
The 60-year-old politician served
in the cabinet of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. She was then the minister of
state for science and technology. In 2007, she was elected deputy governor of
Plateau state and later contested governorship election in 2011 but lost to
Jonah Jang. The University of Jos sociology graduate defected from the Peoples
Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress before the 2015 election. She
is the first female to be a deputy governor in the northern region.
MARIAM KATAGUN
Katagum is Nigeria’s ambassador
and permanent delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a role that she has occupied since June 2009. A
deputy director at the ministry of education, she occupied the office of the
secretary-general of the Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO between 2001
and 2009. The Ahmadu Bello university graduate is also the deputy chair of the
board of governors of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and member
representing Nigeria on the UNESCO executive board.
SADIYA FAROUQ
is the federal commissioner
of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons.
Between 2011 and 2013, she was the national treasurer of the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC), a political party founded by Buhari ahead of the 2011
elections. She served as the national treasurer of the party between 2013 and
June 2014.
SHARON IKEAZOR
Ikeazor is the executive
secretary of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD). In 2011, she
was elected the national women leader of the Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC) and emerged APC’s interim national women leader after the merger that
produced the ruling party. In 2014, she was appointed to APC board of trustees.
GBEMI SARAKI
She is the daughter of Olusola
Saraki, former strongman of Kwara politics, and a sibling of Bukola Saraki,
president of the 8th senate. In 1999, she was elected into the house of
representatives to represent Asa/Ilorin west federal constituency of Kwara. In
2003, the 54-year-old, who holds a bachelors degree in economics from the
University of Sussex, was elected senator representing Kwara central senatorial
district. She held this position till 2011 when she tried to succeed her
brother who was governor of Kwara between 2003 and 2011 but she lost despite
having the backing of her father. She defected to the APC in 2015 and was
believed to have worked against her brother’s re-election.
RAMATU TIJJANI
Ramatu Tijjani is the national
women leader of the APC. The 49-year-old holds a bachelor’s degree in urban and
regional planning from the Ahmadu Bello University. She is the first female
national vice-chairman (north-central zone) of the then leading opposition
political party, the All Peoples Party. In 2010, she became the national woman
leader of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and in June 2014, she became the
national woman leader of the APC.
ZAINAB AHMED
She was appointed minister of
state of budget and planning in 2015 and later substantive minister of finance
in 2018 following the resignation of Kemi Adeosun. The 59-year-old holds a
degree in accounting from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and a master’s in
business administration from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun. She was the
executive secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (NEITI). Ahmed is the daughter of Yahaya Hamza, the foster father of
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state.
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