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Ten Nigerian cabinet ministers resign to run in 2023 polls

Minister Lai Mohammed, the Information Minister and spokesperson for the Government of Nigeria during an Associated Press interview in London, Tuesday, September 26, 2017 [File: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo]

Ten Nigerian cabinet ministers, including the junior petroleum minister, have resigned to run in next year’s election, the information minister Lai Mohammed has said.

On Thursday, the government asked all ministers, ambassadors, agency heads and other political appointees to resign on or by May 16 if they decide to join the country’s 2023 election race.

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