USAfrica: Jonathan sends new message with Pius Anyim’s appointment as Nigeria’s new Secretary to Federal Government
By Chido Nwangwu, Special to USAfrica, Houston and Abuja.
USAfricaonline.com: Following his inauguration on Sunday May 29, 2011 as the elected President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved his cabinet and also announced his first major key appointments. Former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim is the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation while army General O. A. Azazi was re-appointed National Security Adviser.
Anyim, a lawyer, was born on February 19, 1961, hails from the Ebonyi South constituency of Ebonyi State, and was chosen as Senate President in August 2000. He will be sworn-in on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at the Executive Council Chambers at noon.
USAfricaonline.com notes that Senator Anyim’s appointment allows President Jonathan a more relatively independent administrative room, literally, away from the substantial clout of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo’s candidate, former minister and PDP chieftain Ojo Maduekwe would have enhanced the clutch.
Also, it is a strategic appointment which symbolically responds to and minimizes the demands of Jonathan’s very active supporters from mainly Nigeria’s Igbo south east where the President had most of his top 7 votes in the April 2011 presidential elections.
A statement from Musa Aduwak, Director of Information Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, regarded the dissolution and new appointments as bringing “to a close the former administration, and marks the beginning of the new one…. In accordance with the appointment letters of members of the Federal Executive Council, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants, and other political appointees, their appointments ended on May 29th, 2011.”
Anyim, according to USAfrica sources and contacts, is also a popular choice among the independent and progressive segments of Nigeria and the younger generation who demand a better, technocrats-led future for Nigeria.
Regardless of the high expectations, Anyim’s previous position and clout as the Senate President cannot be confused with his new role as an administrative hub of the government. Chido Nwangwu, Founder & Publisher of USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston and Abuja, was recently profiled by the CNN International for his pioneering works on multimedia/news projects for Africans and Americans. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/07/29/mpa.african.media.bk.a.cnn . USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com (characterized by The New York Times as the most influential African-owned, U.S-based multimedia networks) established May 1992, our first edition of USAfrica magazine was published August 1993; USAfrica The Newspaper on May 11, 1994; CLASSmagazine on May 2, 2003; www.PhotoWorks.TV in 2005. wireless: 832-45-CHIDO (24436). Office: 713-270-5500. e-mail: USAfrica247@USAfricaonline.com
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Congrats to Anyim … thumb down to OBJ/Ojo Maduekwe for failing the bid. Ojo is not the only Igboman OBJ should know. There are thousands of us at Ariari Ogbaete, Nkwo Nnewi, Afo-Igwe and the great Otu at Onitsha. He needs to come and see us to sharpen his wetted weapons. Ndia kpachakwa any ha o!