Dr Kayode Fayemi

ProgressiveIn the wings people are talking about the governor of Ekiti State and chair of the Nigeria Governors' Forum Kayode Fayemi...

A skilled lawyer with strong ties to Governor Kayode Fayemi Adebayo could take any number of portfolios and perform well...

He insists that Buhari has the north locked down and is riding high in the south-west thanks to talented figures such as Power Minister Babatunde Fashola and Ekiti governor Kayode Fayemi (AC Vol 59 No 11 Cracks spread in APC alliance)...

With talented ministers such as Okechukwu 'Okey' Enelamah Babatunde Fashola Kayode Fayemi and Udo Udoma all with clear reform ideas there is puzzlement and concern about the government's economic failures...

Other senior figures in the APC seen as hostile to Tinubu's ambitions include Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai Governor of Kaduna State; Babatunde Raji Fashola Minister for Power Works and Housing and the previous Governor of Lagos State; Kayode Fayemi Mines Minister and a former Governor of Ekiti...

Three other ministers will prove extremely important this year on economic matters: Enyinnaya Okechukwu Enelema at Trade and Investment; Babatunde Fashola at Power Housing and Works; and Kayode Fayemi at Solid Minerals...

• Solid Minerals: Kayode Fayemi; although tipped for Foreign Affairs or a security job where as a former assistant Professor of Security Studies at Fort McNair's National Defense University United States he has proven expertise he has a demanding task to fast-track mining development including in large tracts of the Middle Belt and north at a time of sluggish commodity prices...

Meanwhile for national planning minister we have heard three names suggested: Amina J Mohammed former Special Economic Advisor to the President and currently Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; the former Governor of Ekiti State Kayode Fayemi who has also been suggested as Foreign Minister; and former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola...

The brains behind it was former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi Director of the campaign organisation's policy team and the strategist who organised the widely praised primary elections that crowned Buhari as presidential candidate in December without undue rancour from his rivals...

' In contrast Kayode Fayemi former Governor of Ekiti and one of Buhari's campaign directors said his party was running far more of a grassroots campaign on far less money...