The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan
on Thursday night said the Senate was yet to receive the ministerial list from
President Muhammadu Buhari.
He spoke with State House
correspondents at the end of National Assembly leadership dinner with the
President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to him, ministerial
lists are not submitted at dinners.
He also explained that he didn’t
promise Nigerians ministerial list this week.
When asked if he was now in
possession of the ministerial list, he said “Well, I came for dinner and the
process of receiving list is not at dinners. That is all I have to say about
this.”
Reminded that he promised Nigerians
that the list will get to the Senate this week he said: “I never did. Let me
take this opportunity to correct that. A senator raised a point of order under
personal explanation and he said we should be sent the list of ministers by the
executive arm of government.
“And in my response I said the
executive is working so hard to ensure that the list of Nigerians that will
help this Administration work is going to be constituted, we could even receive
it this week.
“Could is conditional and I will
urge everybody here to report it as it is,” he added.
It was however gathered that
President Buhari during the closed doors dinner said he was under tremendous
pressure to release the ministerial list.
Buhari was said to have noted
that most of the ministers he appointed in his first tenure were not known to
him.
And that this time around, he
wants to appoint those he knows, have confidence in and that have the capacity
to deliver.
Those at the dinner included the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Senator Abdullahi
Yahaya – Majority Leader; Senator Ajayi Borofice – Deputy Leader; Senator Orji
Uzor Kalu – Chief Whip and Senator Sabi Abdullahi – Deputy Chief Whip.
Others included Emmanuel Bwacha, Phillip
Aduda- Minority Whip, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Ndudi Godwin Elumelu – Minority
Leader, Toby Okechukwu – Deputy Minority Leader.
Also at the dinner were the
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters
(Senate), Ita Enang, who initiated the dinner.
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