President Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
A source close to the Senate told NAN that the letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday.
The source revealed that the two nominees are from Kogi and Gombe state.
Our
correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be replacing the late
Minister of State for Labour, Barr. James Ocholi, while the nominee
from Gombe would be replacing former Minister for Environment, Ms Amina
Mohammed, who had gone to serve in the United Nations as a deputy
Secretary General.
The
list of ministerial nominees is coming at a time when the Senate stood
down for two weeks consideration of the request of President Buhari for
the appointment of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).
The Senate based its decision on what it termed disregard for its resolutions.
The
upper legislative chamber specifically berated the President for
appearing to be doing nothing about the rejection of Ibrahim Magu a the
Chairman of the EFCC but allowing him to function in acting capacity.
The
senate stressed that it was wrong to leave any appointee in acting
capacity even after he had been rejected twice by the senate.
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