Gaya, the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, said this in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.
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Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Sabo Nanono and Saleh Mamman will be screened by the Senate as Ministerial nominees.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Senators worked till late hours of the night, while screening the nominees and adjourned by 8:13pm.
Prince Tonye Princewill, a former governorship candidate in Rivers, has advised the ministerial nominees to hit the ground running after their inauguration and not expect a honeymoon period.
The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, on Thursday protested against the “endorsement” of Ministerial nominees on a day the Senate screened 14 more would-be members of the Federal Executive Council.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the figure is in addition to the 10 screened by the lawmakers, on Wednesday when the exercise began.
The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Senate will receive the list of ministerial nominees from President Mohammadu Buhari before Friday.
On the new list is a lawyer and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Barrister Adebayo Shittu; Omoyele Daramiola; and a former First Lady of Yobe State, Khadija Abba Ibrahim
They were led into the Senate by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun
The list was received by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki
But Guruje at this year’s World Mental Health Day 2015, held on Saturday, admonished the Senate to also insist that the incoming ministers should be men of integrity like Buhari so as to jointly salvage the economy of the nation from the brink of collapse occasioned by years of mindless stealing of the nation’s treasury by certain public officers
It was learnt that no fewer than 10 nominees had submitted their CVs to the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang
Lar said it was still unclear which state Amina Mohammed represented as she is from Gombe State by birth and married to husband from Kaduna State