Ministerial list: Submission of petitions against nominees begins Tuesday

The Senate will start receiving petitions against President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees on Tuesday.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, told one of our correspondents on Friday in Abuja that the committee would give the petitions prompt attention once they were presented.

He said as of Friday, no member of the public had formally submitted any petition against any of the ministerial nominees.

Buhari sent the list containing the names of the ministerial nominees to the senate on Wednesday for screening.

But Anyanwu noted that the committee might start receiving petitions as from Tuesday when the list would have been officially unveiled by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

He said, “We have not been receiving petitions from members of the public obviously because the list of ministerial nominees has not been officially unveiled by the senate president.

“I think the petitions will start coming in as from next Tuesday after Nigerians would have known the nominees.”

Investigations by Punch revealed that some Peoples Democratic Party-controlled states have been warming up to oppose the clearance of any All Progressives Congress member that would make the list from their states.

-Punch