With one week left, Tinubu’s ministerial list fails to surface at Senate

<p>• Senate dismisses talk on Ministerial list, sets up committee on NASS internal security • Senators stop TCN from obtaining $155m World Bank loan to manufacture meters, seek protection for domestic manufacturers • Implement 35% affirmative action, include women in cabinet, Reps tell Tinubu</p>, <p>After raised hopes, it was an anti-climax yesterday as the Senate failed to announce the arrival of the list of Ministerial nominees reportedly submitted by the Presidency.</p>, <p>Contrary to the expectations of Nigerians on the Ministerial list of President Bola Tinubu, the Senate, shortly before commencing the legislative business of the day, which was their last for the week, went into a closed-door meeting, heightening hopes it was about to brainstorm on the cabinet nominees of Mr. President.</p>, <p>Soon after taking the petitions, which is the fifth item on the Order Paper, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, announced that the senators should go into an executive session after the leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central) had announced the private session.</p>, <p>The Senate entered into the closed-door session at 11.59a.m., and came out at 1.41p.m.</p>, <p>At the resumption of its plenary at 1:46p.m., it was gathered that nothing of such was discussed as the list had not got to the Senate.</p>, <p>The Senate President, however, disclosed that their ‘marathon’ discussion was centered on improving internal security within the premises of the National Assembly. The Senate President also announced that an ad-hoc committee has been set up to that effect, to be headed by Senator Danjuma Goje.</p>, <p>The development means that President Tinubu has just a week to the 60 days deadline as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution, as amended, which requires that the president and governors to submit the names of persons nominated as Ministers or Commissioners within 60 days of taking the oath of office for confirmation by the Senate or state House of Assembly. Tinubu, who assumed office on May 29, 2023, has