Eko Hot Blog reports that a presidency source has revealed that President Bola Tinubu‘s ministerial nominees screened and cleared by the Senate might resume office by the third week of August.
According to The Punch, the source said, “It won’t be earlier than upper week (August 14 – 18) because I know it’s not on the President’s schedule for the new week.”
Another source told the platform that “He (Tinubu) wants to give them the rest of the new week to plan and organise themselves because they will be travelling from different locations.”
Indications are that since the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings are held on Wednesdays, ministers may meet for the first time on August 16.
It would be recalled that the President had last Wednesday sent the second batch of ministerial nominees to the Senate to be screened for various roles in his cabinet.
Prominent on the first and second list were former Governors Nyesom Wike, Dave Umahi, Mohammed Badaru, Bello Matawalle, Nasir El-Rufai, Simon Lalong, Gboyega Oyetola, Atiku Bagudu and Ibrahim Geidam of Rivers, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kaduna, Plateau, Osun, Kebbi, and Yobe states.
The President on Friday withdrew his nomination of Dr. Maryam Shetty from Kano State, replacing her with Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, also from Kano.
He also nominated the former Minister of State for Labour and Unemployment under President Muhammadu Buhari, Festus Keyamo (SAN), summing up the nominees to 48.
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