[BREAKING]: What Are The Names? – What To Know About Tinubu’s Supplementary Ministerial List Gbajabiamila Submitted To Senate Today

[BREAKING]: What Are The Names? – What To Know About Tinubu’s Supplementary Ministerial List Gbajabiamila Submitted To Senate Today

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

Gbajabiamila, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, submitted the second list containing the second batch of ministerial nominees to Senate President Godswill Akpabio precisely at 03:19 pm.

Akpabio is expected to announce the additional nominees after the screening of the 28 nominees from the first batch, which has already been completed.

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Last Thursday, Gbajabiamila submitted the initial list with 28 nominees to the Senate, stating that more names would be forwarded later.

On Wednesday, the Senate screened the following individuals: Dele Alake, Lateef Fagbemi, Muhammad Idris, Ali Pate, and Doris Uzoka.

On Tuesday, the Senate also screened nine nominees and then adjourned the process until Wednesday. The individuals screened on Tuesday included former governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), as well as Wale Edun, Uche Nnaji, Stella Okotete, Adebayo Adelabu, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Hannatu Musawa, and Musa Dangiwa.

On Monday, the upper chamber screened 14 of the 28 nominees forwarded by the President on the previous Thursday. The screened individuals from Monday’s session included Nyesom Wike, former governor of Rivers State, Abubakar Kyari from Borno State, Nkiruka Onyejeocha (Abia State), Bello Muhammad (Sokoto State), Sani Abubakar Danladi (Taraba State), Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa State), 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 requires 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 – along with the Federal Capital Territory, have not yet received ministerial nominees.