Labaran Maku To Step Down Next Week as Minister Of Finance

Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Labaran Maku will next week step down from the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan on the 20th of October, 201  as part of plans to run for Nasarawa State governorship seat in 2015.
According to him, time has come for him to sacrifice the comfort of a ministerial position at the center to join his people and go into the wilderness in Nasarawa State to stop the killings, miscarriage of justice and liberate the people in the state.
Speaking on Sunday during a special mass thanksgiving at the Catholic Diocese of Lafia, St. Patrick’s Parish, Akwanga, Nasarawa State, the minister also announced donation of N7.6 million from his family and his friends both in cabinet and outside the cabinet for the Cathedral in Lafia.