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.
