President Bola Tinubu has not yet complied with this constitutional provision, despite the fact that four days have passed on the 60-day deadline by which the President must submit the names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for vetting and confirmation.
It would be recalled that President Tinubu was sworn in on May 29, when former President Muhammadu Buhari handed over leadership to him.
Several Senate sources told Vanguard over the weekend that the upper legislative body had not yet received the final list of ministerial nominees.
Last week, sources in the President’s Office hinted that the list was complete but that the President was still making changes.
According to one of the sources, four names that the President had originally written in four states were removed and replaced with new names.
According to another source, the final list was supposed to be presented to the Senate last week, but former Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who is said to be the President’s preferred candidate to replace Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, had reportedly raised objections.
Ganduje was initially considered for a minister position, but after Senator Adamu resigned, the President reportedly named Abdullahi Ganduje as a possible successor to the former president because he is from the same region as Adamu.
This is causing a crisis, as some APC supporters claim that the former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Tanko Al-Makura, who hails from the north-central region like the former president, was “cooler than Ganduje.”
Vanguard
