Senate Receives 19 Additional Ministerial Nominees

By Ayodele Oni

Immediate past Governor of Osun state, Gboyega Oyetola is among another batch of ministerial nominees, whose names were forwarded by President Bola Tinubu to the National Assembly on Wednesday.

The list has  19 Minister-nominees to complete a full complement of 47 ministers.

The number is four higher than the number of Ministers in the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The supplementary list is coming seven days after the submission of a list of 28 ministers-nominees to the Senate.

The list has the remaining minister-nominees from states and geo-political zonal representations yet to be filled.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, submitted President Bola Tinubu’s supplementary ministerial list to the Senate at 3.18 pm during the extended screening of nominees in the Committee of the Whole House.

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio received the list contained in a white envelope, which he kept on the table and continued to direct screening proceedings.

Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, was the nominee being screened when Gbajabiamila was allowed into the Senate chambers after the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, had invoked the necessary provisions of the Senate Standing Rules to so admit him to deliver the executive communication.

Those listed as minister-nominees include:

*AHMED TIJJANI

*BOSUN TIJJANI

DR MARYAM SHETTI

*ISHAK SALAKO

*TUNJI ALAUSA

*TANKO SUNUNU

*ADEGBOYEGA OYETOLA

*ATIKU BAGUDU

*BELLO MATAWALLE

IBRAHIM GEIDAM

*SIMON BAKO LALONG

*LOLA ADEJO

*SHUAIBU ABUBAKAR

*TAHIR MAMMAN

*ALIYU SABI

*ALKALI AHMED

*HEINEKEN LOKPOBIRI

*UBA MAIGARI

ZEPHANIAH JISSALO

Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the executive communication at plenary on Wednesday.

He said they would be screened on Friday, August 4, 2023. The exercise, he said, would begin at 11 am.