The Senate has shifted its annual vacation scheduled to commence this week till next week to enable it screen the 43 names on the ministerial list submitted to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Chairman of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, told reporters on Tuesday that the upper chamber decided to move its vacation by a week to allow it do a thorough job in the screening the 43 ministerial nominees.
He stated that the Senate will also suspend its rules to allow the screening to last till as late as 10pm from Wednesday. Adeyeye added that the Senate will also sit on Friday and Monday which are usually not plenary days “so that we can finish the screening exercise between Wednesday and end of next week”.
The cabinet list which was read at plenary on Tuesday by Senate President Ahmad Lawan had 43 names.
Here is the full list of nominees and their States of origin.
1. Dr Uchechukwu Ogah (Abia)
2. Muhammad Musa Bello (Adamawa)
3. Sen Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom)
4. Chris Ngige (Anambra)
5. Sharon Ikeazu (Anambra)
6. Adamu Adamu (Bauchi)
7. Amb Mariam Katagum (Bauchi)
8. Timipre Silva (Bayelsa)
9. Sen. George Akume (Benue)
10. Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno)
11. Goddy Jedi Agba (Cross River)
12. Festus Keyamo (Delta)
13. Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)
14. Dr Osagie Ehanire (Edo)
15. Clement Anade Agba (Edo)
16. Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti)
17. Geofery Oyeanma (Enugu)
18. Ali Isa Ibrahim pantami (Gombe)
19. Emeka Nwajuba (Imo)
20. ENG. Sulaiman Adamu (Jigawa)
21. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed (Kaduna)
22. Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud (Kaduna)
23. Sabo Nanono (Kano)
24. Maj Gen. Bashir Magashi (Kano)
25. Hadi Sirika (Katsina)
26. Abubarkar Malami (Kebbi)
27. Ramatu Tijani (Kogi)
28. Lai Mohammed (Kwara)
29. Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara)
30. Babatunde Raji Fashola (Lagos)
31. Sen. Adeleke Mamora (Lagos)
32. Mohammed H. Abdullahi (Nasarawa)
33. Amb. Zubairu Dada (Niger)
34. Olamilekan Adegbiti (Ogun
35. Sen. Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo)
36. Rauf Aregbesola (Ogun)
37. Sunday Dare (Oyo)
38. Pauline Tallen (Plateau)
39. Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)
40. Mohammed Maigari Dangadi (Sokoto)
41. ENG. Saleh Mamman (Taraba)
42. Abubakar B. Aliyu (Yobe)
43. Sadiya Umar Faruk (Zamfara)
