A fresh batch of ministerial nominations will reportedly be submitted to the Senate today, Wednesday, for review, this is was made known by sources close to President Bola Tinubu.
According to a very trustworthy source in the Senate, who was mentioned by Punch, the list will arrive either extremely early on Wednesday morning or Tuesday night.
The source stated that today’s plenary would read the names of the latest group of ministerial nominees.
The congressman further stated that the 28 nominees’ screening will be completed today, allowing for the screening of the following group.
“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,” the lawmaker said.
The Senate had on Monday screened 14 out of the 28 ministerial nominees earlier submitted by the President.
On Tuesday, nine out of the remaining 14 were screened. Those screened on Tuesday were Senator David Umahi (Ebonyi), Olawale Edun (Ogun State), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna State), Ahmed Dangiwa(Katsina State), Uche Nnaji (Enugu State), Stella Okotete (Delta State), Adebayo Adelabu (Oyo State), Ekperikpe Ekpo (CrossRiver State) and Hannatu Musawa(Katsina State).