anxiety brews among the All Progressives Congress
leadership, there are emerging indications that the Senate may
be faced with tempestuous plenary session today, October 6,
between the Bukola Saraki and Ahmed Lawan factions when the
envelope containing the ministerial list submitted to it is finally
opened for screening to commence.
Senator Bukola Saraki and other senators
President Muhammadu Buhari had directed that the ministerial
list containing 21 ministerial nominees be sent to the National
Assembly last week to meet up with the September 30 deadline.
According to Daily Independent, the senators may clash as
some of them are already insisting that President Buhari must
submit himself before the Senate if he is desirous of holding the
office of the minister of petroleum.

The insistence is hinged on the declaration which the president
made during his trip to address the United Nations 70th general
assembly last week that he had appointed himself as the
petroleum minister.
For some time now, there have been controversies over the
choice of ministerial nominees. The leadership of the All
Progressives Congress had once raised an alarm that they were
not being carried along in the process of choosing the
president’s cabinet members.
Subsequently, chieftains of the ruling APC and other Nigerians
were said to have been engaged in serious behind the scene
lobbying over ‘who gets what’ in the Buhari-led government.
However, sources say that the senators had vowed to reject an
incomplete list saying that the constitution provides for a
nominee from each state of the federation and that any list that
does not cover the 36 states would suffer serious opposition on
the floor of the Senate, Daily Independence reports.
It has been over four months since President Buhari was sworn
in but still trying to make up his cabinet members as Nigerians
wait eagerly to know who his choices are.

As the process continues, the loggerheads between the Saraki
and Lawan factions over how the Senate president emerged as
the leader of the upper legislature may be an impediment in the
screening and confirmation process.
The suspense may however end today if the Senate goes ahead
with the screening process for the first batch of 21 ministers
whose names are meant to be in the list.
Members of the Senate averred that they would not deviate from
the constitutional provisions as they will apply rigorous
measures in the screening of the ministerial nominees.
In a related development, some APC chieftains whose names
are reportedly on the ministerial list are said to have started
lobbying senators so they can successfully scale the screening
process billed for Wednesday, October 7. Some others are said
to have gone spiritual embarking on intensive prayer sessions
to come out unscathed after the exercise.
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If the Nigeria constitution is strictly followed, there will be no cause for the alarm. I advice that the right thing should be done for peace sake.