Audu Innocent Ogbeh

Meanwhile former Minister of Agriculture Audu Ogbeh announced that Buhari had approved the Ruga (Rural Grazing Area) plan to set aside cattle-grazing areas for herders driving their cattle to market in the south along with water pasture housing and even schools for young Fulani...

Missing in actionNotable omissions from the list include several key first-term ministers including interior minister Abdulrahman Dambazau defence minister Brigadier General (rtd) Mansur Dan-Ali and agriculture minister Audu Ogbeh...

• Agriculture and Rural Development: Audu Innocent Ogbeh; a veteran politician (once Chairman of the previously governing People's Democratic Party) rather than a technocrat he will rely heavily on the structures and procedures established by his predecessor Akinwumi Adesina now African Development Bank President...

The interest of the older generation of former PDP figures who worked with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo (and indirectly that of the former President himself) is underlined in the inclusion of former PDP Chairperson (2001-2005) Audu Ogbeh and more convincingly Amina J Mohammed (Gombe)...

The top managers of the new Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) are Lawal Kaita (former Kaduna State Governor under President Shehu Shagari); Ghali Na'abba (Speaker of the House of Representatives in President Olusegun Obasanjo's first term); Abubakar Rimi (Kano Governor under Shagari); and Audu Ogbeh ousted as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) national Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 18)...

The party chairmanship is in the hands of a caretaker committee led by acting Chairman Colonel Ahmadu Alli and National Secretary Ujuoma Madueke after the sacking of Audu Ogbeh an Abubakar supporter this year...

Parliamentary resistance is strengthened because its powers would extend to state governors many of whom are suspected of fraud and who oppose Obasanjo more vigorously since the Chairman of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) Audu Ogbeh was forced to resign (AC Vol 46 No 2)...

The succession that he is planning has been upset by a public falling out with the Chairman of the governing People's Democratic Party Audu Ogbeh...

Criticism by PDP Chairman Audu Ogbeh caused particular rage because he compared the present setup to the Second Republic (1979-83) implying that it might suffer the same fate of being overthrown by the military...

The killing was followed by a shake-up within the PDP after which political veteran Anthony Anenih emerged as Chairman of the party's Board of Trustees pegging level with National Chairman Audu Ogbeh for real power in the party...