Ministerial List : Senate Gives Buhari Till Friday

The Senate has given President Muhammadu Buhari till Friday to submit
the list of ministerial nominees for screening, failure of which the
red chamber will proceed on its two months annual recess.

In line with its annual calendar, the National Assembly is meant to go
on its annual recess on July twenty-sixth and resume on September
twenty-sixth.

Buhari, who won election in February and was sworn in on May
twenty-ninth, has continued to delay the submission of the ministerial
list, arguing that he will need to take his time to appoint the people
he knows.

The Chairman, Senate ad hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs,
Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, said the red chamber would proceed on its
annual two-month recess this week if the Senate did not get the
ministerial list by Friday.

Adeyeye said the President was at liberty to send the list whenever he
pleased and that the Senate also had a duty to consider it in the
overriding national interest.