The Senate on
Wednesday received the ministerial nominees list at about 4:56pm from
the Presidency but said the content of the presidential communication
would be read on Tuesday.
The Senate had adjourned plenary at 2:00pm on Wednesday till Tuesday, October 6.
Sources said 21 names were contained in the list.
The Chief of Staff to the President,
Abba Kyari, in company with the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, delivered
the list in a sealed envelope to the Senate President in his office.
According to source, a former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola; and a......
former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, made the list.
Also
said to be on the list are Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti
State; a former Governor of Anambra State, Chris Ngige; and a one-time
Governor of Abia State, Ogbonaya Onu.
Malami Abubakar, SAN, a former National
Legal Adviser to the defunct Congress for Progressives Change; Aisha
Alhassan, a former governorship candidate of the APC in Taraba State;
and Amina Mohammed, a special adviser to the Secretary-General of the
United nations, Ban Ki-Moon, also made the ministerial list. Same for a
former finance commissioner in Ogun State, Kunle Adeosun.
Curiously, the Group Managing Director
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Ibe Kachikwu, is said to
be on the list, perhaps to combine his headship of the NNPC with junior
petroleum minister. portfolio. Buhari has already announced himself as
the substantive Minister of Petroleum.
The President had pledged that his
ministerial nominees would be submitted to the Senate for screening and
approval before the end of September thus raising fears on Wednesday
that Buhari had failed to keep his promise to Nigerians.
However, the list was submitted late Wednesday in a sealed envelope by the Chief
of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari and Senator Ita Enang,
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Legislative Matters
(Senate). It was later revealed that next Tuesday at a plenary session of the Upper House, the list of Ministerial nominees sent to the legislative body for screening by President Muhammadu Buhari will be open up and read to the House.
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