PDP Rubbishes Buhari’s Ministerial List, Says Unworthy Of 6 Months Delay

Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo was reported to have been presented by former president Olusegun Obasanjo as the possible Minister of Finance for President Buhari’s administration. I want to say this is baseless and untrue. That makes it sweeter.

“When the list was coming, we expected 36 names”.

I hate talking about religion in a political discourse.

Nigerians do not mind having waited. Both states have the same politico-religious blood group. Other nominees include the former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau.

From the Senate, those in attendance were Majority Leader, Ali Ndume; his Deputy, Bala Ibn Na’Allah; Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio and Minority Whip, Philip Aduda. A semblance of balance.

In Jigawa, Farouk Adamu Aliyu is better suited, politically, owing to his contributions to the success of the party. His reason? He wanted to devote enough time and concentration to the Buhari 2015 project. I love seeing loyalty rewarded.

The president, Mr. Buhari, has two important upcoming engagements with the National Assembly. In fact, I associate myself with that list. I still want Buhari to consolidate his achievements beyond 2019 because our problems can not be solved in four years.

See photos from the meeting below.

“Besides this is his record of transparency and accountability in Ekiti State, which we believe is what propelled President Buhari to pick him as the minister”. But the majority of people on that list are old people who can only misappropriate and loot the nation’s resources.

Speaking to pressmen at the end of plenary, Chairman, Senate ad hoc Committee on Media and Publicity, Dino Melaye, said the upper chamber at its closed session agreed on hurdles to be scaled by the nominees before their eventual clearance.

There were no surprises on Tuesday’s list, which senators will start vetting next week, said Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Much of the malfeasance appears to have taken place under Diezani Alison-Madueke, the oil minister under former president Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari’s predecessor. The list of the remaining nominees will follow shortly.

But the Benue-born politician is unnecessarily facing cyber persecution in order to stress a point.

This follows reaffirmation of a tripod standpoint of Constitutional provisions, Standing Rules of the Senate and established conventions of the Senate upon which screening of the nominees would be based.

Presiding Senate President Saraki, has directed that reports of investigations into the petitions should be made ready for the Senate to deliberate upon before commencement of the screening. Due diligence has been done by the President to bring the list to the Senate. It is not something to haggle about. “Let us properly sift the grains from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats before we trust anyone with ministerial appointments”. “Of course, the president of MAN just said that we’ve one of the most expensive electricity in the world”, he quoted Buhari as saying. Not a big deal.