Undaunted President Tinubu Forges Ahead, Submits Supplementary Ministerial List To Senate

Undaunted President Tinubu Forges Ahead, Submits Supplementary Ministerial List To Senate

By THECONSCIENCEng 

President Bola Tinubu is a man known for decisiveness and effectiveness amongst other things, an essential quality for leadership.

While he takes in feedbacks regardless of the form from concerned stakeholders and map out necessary areas for adjustment, he’s never known for burying his head like the Ostrich.

Some of his far reaching policies which were swiftly deployed to rescue the fragile economy had attracted criticisms.

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However, as he continues to engage all stakeholders including dialoguing with labour unions amid nationwide protest with assurances of significant interventions coming out in phases to cushion the harsh impact of fuel subsidy removal amid nationwide protest, he is also forging ahead on critical matters of governance especially getting his full team in place for the arduous tasks ahead.

The Chief of Staff to President, Femi Gbajabiamila, today, submitted President Bola Tinubu’s supplementary ministerial list to the Senate.

The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives submitted the second list with the second batch of ministerial nominees to Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at exactly 03:17pm.

Akpabio is expected to unveil the additional nominees of the President after the screening of the 28 nominees in the first batch.

Already, the Senate has screened the 28 nominees in the first batch.

Gbajabiamila had last Thursday submitted the first list with 28 nominees to the red chamber and said more names would be forwarded to the upper chamber.

Those screened on Wednesday are Dele Alake, Muhammad Idris, Ali Pate, Doris Uzoka and Legal luminary, Lateef Fagbemi, the nominee from Kwara State who is said to likey be the next Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

The Senate had on Tuesday screened nine nominees and adjourned the exercise till Wednesday. Those screened on Tuesday are ex-governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi); Wale Edun, Uche Nnaji, Stella Okotete, Adebayo Adelabu, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Hannatu Musawa, and Musa Dangiwa.

The upper chamber had on Monday screened 14 of the 28-man list of ministerial nominees forwarded by the President last Thursday.

Those screened on Monday include former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike; Abubakar Kyari from Borno State; Nkiruka Onyejeocha (Abia State); Bello Muhammad (Sokoto State); Sani Abubakar Danladi (Taraba State); and Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa State).

Others are Joseph Utsev (Benue State), Olubunmi Tunji Ojo (Ondo State), Betta Edu (Cross River State), Uju Kennedy Ohaneye (Anambra State), Abubakar Momoh (Edo State), John Enoh (Cross River State), Iman Suleiman Ibrahim (Nasarawa State), and Yusuf Maitama Tuggar (Bauchi State).

Section 147 (3) of the 1999 Constitution mandates the President to appoint at least one minister from each of the 36 states. However, 11 states – Adamawa, Bayelsa, Gombe, Kano, Kebbi, Kogi, Lagos, Osun, Yobe, Plateau and Zamfara — and the Federal Capital Territory don’t have ministerial nominees yet.