FULL LIST: Gov Ikpeazu Sends Names Of 27 Commissioner Nominees To Abia Assembly

Eight months after sacking his cabinet, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has forwarded the names of twenty-seven commissioner nominees to the Abia State House of Assembly for confirmation.

The Secretary to the Abia State Government, Chris Ezem, announced this in a statement on Sunday.

THE WHISTLER had reported that Ikpeazu dissolved the state’s executive council on January 23, retaining only the SSG and the Commissioners for Information, John Okiyi Kalu; Justice, Uche Ihediwa and Health, Dr Joe Osuji.

This is the third time the governor would be rejigging his cabinet since assuming office on May 29, 2015.

Ezem gave the names of the nominees who are yet to be assigned portfolios as:

(1) Mazi Donatus Okorie

(2) Ndom Godwin

(3) Chief Okezie Erondu

(4) Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji

(5) Karibe Ojigwe

(6) Chief Mrs Uwaoma Olewengwa

(7) Prince C.O.Enweremadu

(8) Barr Charles Esonu

(9) Chief Chinagorom Nwankpa

(10) Hon Monday Ajaegbu

(11) Mr Sopuruchi Bekee

(12) Deaconess Rose Urenta

(13) Chief Kingsley Imaga

(14) Chidiebere Uwagwu Kalu

(15) Barr I.C. Mark

(16) Chief Chisom Nwachukwu

(17) Chief Eze Nwanganga

(18) Barr Tony Nwanmuo

(19) Barr Sam Nwogu

(20) Dr Chidi Onwuchuruba

(21) Ugochukwu Emezue

(22) Mrs Adaku Oseiza

(23) Barr Eze Chikamnayo

(24) Chief Godswill Nwanoruo

(25) Prince Obinna Okey

(26) Chief Ukwu Rocks Emma

(27) Barr C.C. Emelogu.

The opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state had criticized Ikpeazu for running the affairs of the state without commissioners.

“How can this be? Majority of them are meant to execute all what’s approved for their ministries in the 2021 Budget. They made inputs on how those ministries will be run this year, why are we derailing from how government should operate? The most embarrassing of all these dramas is that the Governor still goes about referring to some of the people he never announced that he retained as Commissioners,” the Abia APC had said in a statement issued in May by its spokesperson, Ben Godson.

The party had said “Abia is not a hamlet he can administer as he feels” adding that “as a Governor he has right to remove any of his employees, but courtesy demands that he administer Abia as a state not a social club where he owes nobody any explanations.”