Ministerial List: President Tinubu's Aide Gives Update as Senate Gears Up for Screening

• The Nigerian Senate is set to receive the long-awaited ministerial list of the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
• The president's senior special assistant, Tope Ajayi, made this disclosure during a recent interview
• According to the presidential aide, the Nigerian Senate will receive the list and as well screen the ministerial nominees this week

With just five days to the end of the 60-day constitutional deadline, the Nigerian Senate is expected to receive the list of the president’s ministerial nominees this last week of July 2023.

Tinubu's aide speaks about long-awaited ministerial list

The president’s senior special assistant on media and publicity, Tope Ajayi, in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, July 23, 2023, said:

“Ministers’ list will be out this week. Let’s wait till the names are out.”

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Meanwhile, Tinubu, who was sworn in as president on May 29, has to submit his ministerial list to the Senate before July 29 as mandated by law.

The spokesperson for the Senate, Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South), said the upper chamber has enough time to screen the ministerial nominees within the stipulated time.

The senators are expected to tackle the challenges of legislating for the country and ensuring good governance for Nigerians under Tinubu's presidency, Vanguard report added.

Tinubu’s ministerial list fails to surface at Senate, southeast senator Umeh reacts

The senator representing Anam­bra Central, Victor Umeh, has revealed his position regarding the long-awaited ministerial list of Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Umeh, on Thursday, July 20, disclosed that the Sen­ate was not in custody of the minis­terial list purportedly sent to its chamber by President Tinubu.

Umeh made this disclosure while reacting to reports in sections of the media that the upper chamber had received the ministerial list from the executive.

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Atiku's aide says Tinubu's petroleum minister would be sacked 6 months after appointment

President Bola Tinubu's ministerial list has been dominating the media space for nearly a month now, and with a few days left for the president to unveil the list, Nigerians are yet to know when the list will actually be revealed.

But it has been said that any person that becomes the minister of petroleum aside from President Tinubu himself or his vice, Kashim Shettima, would not last more than six months in office.

Daniel Bwala, a media aide to Atiku Abubakar during the February 25 presidential election campaign, made the claim in a tweet on Wednesday, July 19.

Source: Legit.ng