President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has cleared his activities for
Tuesday and Wednesday as he tries to review and finalise his ministerial list.
As a result, he will not be receiving visitors for the two
days.
He has till Friday, July 28, to submit the list to the
senate in line with section 42(a) of the constitution which states that “the
nomination of any person to the office of a Minister for confirmation by the
Senate shall be done within sixty days after the date the President has taken
the oath of office”.
He was sworn in on May 29.
TheCable reports that even though most of the nominations
are settled, there are states posing a challenge because of the candidates.
Many of his associates are in the dark over the final list.
“The president is a chess player. He keeps most of his
decisions to himself till last point,” a presidency official source said.
There was a lot of speculation last week that the list had
been sent to the senate but the upper chamber of the national assembly did not,
as customary, discuss it.
TheCable also reports that the imminent nomination of
Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of Kano state, as the national chairman of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the gaps Tinubu is trying to
fill.
Ganduje had been pencilled down as a minister but the forced
resignation of Adamu Abdullahi as chairman led to further adjustments of the
list.
The president has been criticised for the delay in forming
his cabinet.
President Muhammadu Buhari did not name a cabinet until
after five months after his inauguration in 2015 but there was no
constitutional timeframe then.
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