Vertex is associated with Ernest Shonekan former interim head of state and a respected businessman who headed the United African Company of Nigeria (UACN)...
Last month former heads of state Shehu Shagari Ernest Shonekan and Abdulsalami Abubakar tried to bring the two sides together amid optimistic noises from Obasanjo's political advisor Jerry Gana...
Ernest Shonekan Interim Head of State August 1993-November 1993...
August 1993: New Head of State Ernest Shonekan agreed to a reconfiguration of the equity in NLNG; the foreign shareholders were allowed 51 per cent and the NNPC holding was reduced to 49 per cent...
Other mooted candidates include: Senator Lyel Imoke who was a presidential advisor and was formerly in charge of the beleaguered National Electric Power Authority; Bode Agusto who runs a successful financial ratings agency; Pat Utomi head of Lagos Business School as well as being Chairman of both Platinum Bank and Business Day; and Isaac Aluko-Olokun currently point-man on Nigeria's role in the New Partnership for Africa's Development and formerly a close associate of Ernest Shonekan when he ran United Africa Company...
Nigeria has appointed a facilitator the businessman and former interim Head of State Ernest Shonekan and South Africa is shortly to appoint one...
Director of Military Intelligence under President Shehu Shagari Gusau was Coordinator of National Security under Babangida and Chief of Army Staff in the short-lived interim government of his friend Ernest Shonekan...
Babangida has told friends that he has papers indicating Obasanjo's opposition to the late Moshood Abiola (the Yoruba millionaire who should have won the cancelled election of 1993) and suppport of the discredited interim government of businessman Ernest Shonekan...
Chief Ernest Shonekan a businessman who briefly acted as interim head of state in 1993 is assuming a steadily larger role in Nigeria's regional relations; he refuses to discuss the future of the CFA and his officials assume that it is they who will run any future regional currency union...
His one venture back into the public sector was to accept the chairmanship of the Liquefied Natural Gas Company from Ernest Shonekan in 1993...
