Names In Tinubu Ministerial List Sparks Tension in Senate

Names in President Tinubu Ministerial list have sparked tension in the Senate.

Newsonline Nigeria reports that the controversy surrounding the content of the cabinet list submitted to the Senate by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forced the House into a closed-door session, IgbereTV has learned.

 

This Nigeria News platform understands that the upper legislative chamber went into executive session few minutes into the commencement of today’s plenary, largely necessitated by the list of ministerial nominees believed to have been submitted by the Presidency.

 

Soon after taking petitions, which is the fifth item in the Order Paper, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, announced that the Senators should go into an executive session after the leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central) had made the announcement.

 

The Senate entered into the closed-door session at 11.59a.m.

 

The meeting may be about the ministerial nominees from President Bola Tinubu.

 

A source told Newsonline Nigeria that the list is already creating problems among the Senators, which explained the need for the meeting.

 

Newsonline Nigeria recalls that there was a meeting the President of the Senate had with major stakeholders yesterday. It lasted for several hours.

 

The source told Vanguard that the President of the Senate was already in possession of the list, which may be read after the closed-door meeting, or next week since there will be no plenary tomorrow.