By Ishola Kayode
Following the 28-person ministerial list he transmitted to the Senate last week, President Bola Tinubu will today forward a new batch of cabinet nominees for screening.
According to a Senate source, TND, gleaned the names would arrive the upper legislative chamber early Wednesday morning.
The names of the new batch of ministerial nominees would be read at the plenary today, according to the source.
It further revealed that the screening of the 28 nominees forwarded last week will be concluded today so that the next batch can be screened thereafter.
According to the source, “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.”
It could be recalled that the Senate had on Monday screened the first batch of 14 out of the 28 ministerial nominees earlier submitted by President Tinubu.
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).
