Cpiano:
In anoda news. I have come to discover that all these our politicians are friends in their secret corners. Especially when I saw that laughing episode of d ogas dem. NA we just dey kill ourselves ontop every news,wen dem push give us. I just hope they'll take this serious.Naija matter long pass river Niger o.

warrior01:
So Amaechi should throwaway pride now beg, and tender an unreserved apologies to mama peace, Wike, the three senators from Rivers and the entire Ss/SE for betraying them in their times of need. Anything short of this, no ministerial appointment. Shikena.

freeDR:
Simply put, Ameachi is the target. The senate's sledge hammer will crush him. What about Fayemi? Mtcheeeew! In as much as I like Fayose, he sometimes disappoints me. Why on earth will you start supporting Fayemi in his ministerial bid? If he left Ekiti in #79billion debt, then he is obviously a bad manager that is not fit to represent Ekiti. A man should be known for his principles; Fayose should stop darting about like a hoopoe bird. When you defeat your enemy, make sure he's not only defeated but destroyed beyond redemption, or else, he'll be back to destroy you. #finishfayemi

Sermwell:
So long a letter
Where is ameachi and fashola? I want to see their forms after filling

Tycoflu:
Some people can't comprehend sha! What they need is evidence of asset declaration, as that slip CCB usually give after declaring asset with them. You will wait till eternity if you were expecting to see the list of all their assets.

chukwudi44:


Dreams ke? How will Amaechi be cleared without any River state Senator backing him?

slap1:
Others need forms to declare their assets, but Amaechi would need an exercise book.

anigbajumo:


The same way 2senators frm Lag supported Obanikoro according to rule of Law....?


Pa sukuwudi,continue to deceive yerself...

Bitterleafsoup:
We need assets with amounts make it clear Senators!

freeDR:
Simply put, Ameachi is the target. The senate's sledge hammer will crush him. What about Fayemi? Mtcheeeew! In as much as I like Fayose, he sometimes disappoints me. Why on earth will you start supporting Fayemi in his ministerial bid? If he left Ekiti in #79billion debt, then he is obviously a bad manager that is not fit to represent Ekiti. A man should be known for his principles; Fayose should stop darting about like a hoopoe bird. When you defeat your enemy, make sure he's not only defeated but destroyed beyond redemption, or else, he'll be back to destroy you. #finishfayemi

freeDR:
Simply put, Ameachi is the target. The senate's sledge hammer will crush him. What about Fayemi? Mtcheeeew! In as much as I like Fayose, he sometimes disappoints me. [b]Why on earth will you start supporting Fayemi in his ministerial bid? [/b]If he left Ekiti in #79billion debt, then he is obviously a bad manager that is not fit to represent Ekiti. A man should be known for his principles; Fayose should stop darting about like a hoopoe bird. When you defeat your enemy, make sure he's not only defeated but destroyed beyond redemption, or else, he'll be back to destroy you. #finishfayemi

agitator:


Lol, you must be a learner.

Yorubas never betray their own outside. No matter how they quarrel and fight. Once the person is not after what they want then no wahala. Fayemi is no longer after the governor's seat.

Didn't you notice how they condemned GEJ's Agric programmes but where quick to recommend the minister who was in charge of the program to GMB to endorse for ADB? This was also extended to other ministers from South West under GEJ.

When the northerner said Yoruba is the problem of Nigeria, did you think he was joking?

mrsuccessful:


SenseiX

slap1:
Others need forms to declare their assets, but Amaechi would need an exercise book.

slap1:
Others need forms to declare their assets, but Amaechi would need an exercise book.

akponanefelix:
[b][/b]Representatives and senators, they must have met those conditions before now.

“So, they would not be exposed to the same rigorous scrutiny that those who were not members of the National Assembly will face.”

He added, “The Senate is also going to give priority to former members of the National Assembly in terms of the time for the screening. What I’m saying is that we may call up those, who are former members of the National Assembly before we begin to consider those, who are not members.

“We also, as a matter of modification for the take-a-bow-and-go, where it concerns only former members of the National Assembly, they may be questioned only by the chairman of that sitting, who is the President of the Senate.’’

No fewer than 25 petitions have been submitted by various individuals and groups seeking to stop the clearance of some of the 21 ministerial nominees.

Checks at the office of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions showed that 25 petitions had been submitted to it as of the close of work on Thursday.

Apart from the petition against former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi , which was submitted by the three senators from Rivers State to the senate president on Wednesday, another senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Danjuma La’ah, submitted his on Thursday against the nomination of Mrs. Amina Mohammed from Kaduna State.

La’ah wrote on behalf of the Southern Kaduna Coalition, an amalgamation of all the pressure and public interest groups of Southern Kaduna extraction. Mohammed’s accusers said she was not from Kaduna.

The petition, signed by the group’s coordinator, James Kanyi, read in part, “We have credible evidence to believe that she is an indigene of Gombe State and not Kaduna State as constitutionally required.”

Eleven of the ministerial nominees were however at the National Assembly on Thursday to submit their Curriculum Vitae ahead of next Tuesday’s screening.

The deadline for the submission of the CVs, according to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, is Friday (today).

Saraki on Thursday asked the committee of the Senate currently investigating the petitions against the nominees to submit its report before the screening starts next week.

Meanwhile, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has disagreed with the Senate new rule that a ministerial nominee must get the support of at least two senators from his state to scale through screening.

The spokesman for the APC in Rivers, Mr. Chris Finebone, told our correspondent in a telephone interview on Thursday that something was wrong with such a rule on the screening of ministerial nominees.

Finebone explained that a ministerial nominee did not need the support of any senator to be confirmed a minister.

The three representing Rivers State in the Senate – Olaka Nwogu, George Sekibo and Osinakachukwu Ideozu – are all members of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Amaechi, the nominee from the state is of the APC.

Calling on the Senate to forget about such criterion, Finebone recalled that Musiliu Obanikoro, who was from an APC state, but a member of the PDP, was able to scale through and became a minister.

He said, “I am sure that there is something wrong there; there is something not correct there. I know we have had cases where, for an example, Obanikoro never got the support of any senator and he scaled through. So, there is something I suspect that is not right there.

“Beyond Obanikoro, we have also had other examples where ministerial nominees never got the support of senators from their states and they scaled through. How about states where the senators are all from the opposition party? Does it mean that the Federal Government would surrender to the opposition?

“I don’t think it has been happening in the past. There were places where the senators were from the opposition, yet the Federal Government got its ministers not from the opposition party.

“The Senate should forget about such a rule because in the past it never came to play. I want to be sure that it is a new thing they have invented. But it does not work that way; it will not work that way. I don’t want to also believe that the rules are changing with some persons in mind.”

Also, a former aide to the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Tony Okocha, recalled that two senators in the past had opposed the nomination of Mr. Henry Ogiri for a position in the Niger Delta Development Commission but that Ogiri eventually scaled through despite such opposition.

“It does not follow. Are we not Nigerians? Obanikoro, who was from a state in the opposition party in the past, was made a minister in recent past despite coming from the state from the opposition party,” Okocha said.