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Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olukolade, will this week quit his ministerial job, Sunday Independenthas learnt.
His voluntary exit from the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan is because of his ambition to run for the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State and the need to effectively manage his political structure in the ever controversial and politically active state.
Olukolade will be running under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Though it is not yet clear whether he has gotten Presidential backing, it is however not likely that he would resign his ministerial portfolio without the assurances of his boss that the leadership of the PDP would be behind him.
Especially now that some of the party’s governors have gone rogue, the presidency might want only persons it could trust to fly the party’s flag, some analysts have reasoned.
While the Ekiti election is next year, more ministers are also expected to step down as the 2015 election draws near, to contest in their various states.
Recently, President Jonathan sent packing nine ministers in his cabinet, a development some analysts interpreted to mean an attempt by the presidency to get rid of opposition members within the government
