EXCLUSIVE: Tinubu To Send Second Batch Of Ministerial List Today

According to an authentic source, President Bola Tinubu will be sending another batch of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening today.

“By Wednesday, the new set of nominees will be unveiled, so that by Monday, we will be through with their screening.We want to conclude with the screening before we go on our recess. We wouldn’t want a situation where we would go on recess and we would now start calling lawmakers to back to come for screening,” one of the lawmakers said.

Recall that yesterday Tuesday, the Senate conducted screening for nine out of the remaining 14. The names of those screened on Tuesday were  Uche Nnaji (Enugu State), Stella Okotete (Delta State), Adebayo Adelabu (Oyo State), Ekperikpe Ekpo (CrossRiver State)  and Hannatu Musawa(Katsina State)

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Others were Senator David Umahi (Ebonyi), Olawale Edun (Ogun State), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna State), and Ahmed Dangiwa(Katsina State).

Senator Dave Umahi (Ebonyi)

El Rufai, while being screened, said,  “The President’s vision is that within seven years, we’ll not have power outages in this country. The president is saddened by the fact that countries like Benin Republic, Niger, Cameroon, our neighbours have reliable electricity yet with all our resources and capabilities, and the quality of people we have as a nation, we are unable to provide electricity to our households and businesses”.

Senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Karima, just before El-Rufai’s began, stood up and explained to his colleagues that he had a petition with him that had been written against him over the issue of insecurity in Southern Kaduna while he was Kaduna State Governor.

“Your performance in any office you find yourself in the country has been outstanding. In the Bureau of Public Enterprises, your record is there, in FCT as a minister, your record is there, and as two-time governor of Kaduna state, you did well.But, I have a very strong petition against you that borders on security, unity and cohesiveness of the Nigerian nation and I think that the petition has to be considered in this screening exercise.” Karimi said

He then went forward to present the petition before the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau who presided over the screening process.

“I don’t know if you followed the normal process, but this is the opportunity for nominees to explain and showcase themselves, later we will come to confirmation and approval.” the deputy senate president said while responding, before the ministerial screening was moved till Wednesday.