{"id":2758,"date":"2023-08-21T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2023-08-21T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:41:04","slug":"i-requested-to-be-assigned-to-ministry-of-solid-minerals-alake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/i-requested-to-be-assigned-to-ministry-of-solid-minerals-alake\/","title":{"rendered":"I requested to be assigned to ministry of solid minerals \u2013 Alake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dele Alake, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, says he was assigned the portfolio by President Bola Tinubu because of the sensitive position of the sector to economic renewal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alake said this on Monday while briefing newsmen after the inauguration of 45 new ministers at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The minister said he specifically asked the President to assign the ministry to him contrary to the general perception that he would be given a particular portfolio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alake said the much talked about portfolio speculated for him was not necessarily tailored for only him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018\u2019I heard about that matter since the beginning of this administration when I was given the position of Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communication and Strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018\u2019The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, as you know, is a sensitive position in this period of economic renewal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The administration is ready to give a new lease of life to the sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018\u2019So, that position was one that I specifically ask Mr President to give me and he obliged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe ministry is key to the administration and the president wanted someone that he trusts and believe would deliver effectively,\u2019\u2019 Alake said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There were speculations that Alake would be assigned to the federal ministry of information before the official posting was announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dele Alake, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, says he was assigned the portfolio by President Bola Tinubu because of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}