The Senate discloses that on Monday, the screening of the 28 ministerial nominees presented by President Bola Tinubu will be done.
Adeyemi Adaramodu (APC-Ekiti), the spokesperson of Senate, disclosed this while addressing journalists after the list of the nominees was read in the upper chamber on Thursday.
Mr Adaramodu said although the Senate was not supposed to sit on Mondays, “we have suspended all our rules for them to commence the exercise next Monday.”
He assured that the screening would be thorough because the lawmakers were aware of the high expectations of those who would assist Mr Tinubu in fulfilling his mandate and the constitution.
“The Senate is going to examine the character, personality, experiences, the background of every nominee, and we believe at the end of it, Nigerians will not be disappointed,” added Mr Adaramodu. “We expect that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) that will be constituted after the screening is going to be the one that will breathe oxygen into the comatose economy of Nigeria.”
The Senate spokesman noted that to satisfy the expectations of Nigerians for “high velocity” performance, “we will ‘eye mark’, not earmark the performances.”
Also, he said, there would be no time allocation for any nominee, and “if a single nominee takes up to three hours or a whole day, so be it.”
Furthermore, He stated that all nominees had gone through security screening checks from the executive and if there be any red flag, it would be looked into. “Never will Nigerians be disappointed by the 10th Senate” he added.
However, the screening will commence on Monday and the annual recess of the National Assembly, which would have begun on Thursday, has been put on hold till after the exercise.
(NAN)
