Last Thursday, Gbajabiamila presented the list of 28-man ministerial nominees to the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday presented a new batch of ministerial list to the Senate.
The Senate suspended its rules at 3:15 pm to allow the Chief of Staff and former speaker of the House of Representatives to enter to present the list to Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Akpabio is expected to unveil the additional nominees after the screening of the 28 nominees in the first batch.
Last Thursday, Gbajabiamila presented the list of 28-man ministerial nominees to the Akpabio.
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Among those who made the list are the immediate past Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, and his colleague from Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai. The immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Senator David Umahi, also made the list.
The Senate, on Monday, began screening the first batch of ministerial nominees.
As of the time of filing this report, the Senate had screened 25 nominees in the first batch.
Among those who have been screened are Wike, El-Rufai, Abubakar Momoh, Dele Alake, Lateef Fagbemi, Muhammad Idris, Ali Pate and Wale Edun.