Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, minister-designate, says she was “quite nervous” during the ministerial screening process, but the guidance of Basheer Lado, special adviser to the president on senate matters, helped her during the exercise.
Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke in Abuja on behalf of the other
ministers-designate at a meeting with Lado.
The former ambassador said the presidential aide told them
all they needed to know during the screening exercise which helped them.
“We cannot thank you enough for how you have navigated us
all through this process and how you have made us quite comfortable through the
whole procedure,” she said.
“I speak for myself,
I don’t know about anybody else, I was quite nervous, we were just wondering
basically if this day will come and go.
“But from the onset, each person here, you made the effort
to get in touch personally, speak to us, tell us everything that we needed to
do, all the documentation that needed to be done and saw us through this, from
beginning to completion.
“So, I will just like on behalf of everybody here and I
congratulate all my colleagues here, but on behalf of all of us, we just say a
very very big thank you. We really appreciate your efforts.
“We appreciate your
considerations, we appreciate your sacrifice, because we were calling you at
odd hours of the night and you were always available to speak to us and to
guide us through this.
“So I thank you so very much on behalf of all of us here.”
On Wednesday, the senate confirmed Nentawe Yilwatda as
minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Muhammadu Maigari
Dingyadi as minister of labour and employment, Odumegwu-Ojukwu as minister of state
for foreign affairs, and Yusuf Abdullahi Ata as minister of state housing and
urban development.
Others are Idi Mukhtar Maiha as minister of livestock
development, Jumoke Oduwole as minister of trade and investment, and Suwaiba
Said Ahmad as the minister of state for education.
During the exercise, Senate President Godswill Akpabio had
to tell senators to restrict themselves to her resume and stop commenting on
her beauty.
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