November 4, 2015 
In an unusual step, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday personally delivered to President Muhammadu Buhari, a list of nominees cleared by the Senate for appointment as ministers, breaking with past protocol that required presidential aides to transmit the letter.
In the past, the special advisers to the president on National Assembly submitted names of nominees to the Senate, and back to the president.
Mr. Buhari was first to ignore that procedure this time, choosing to send his list through his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, than his senior special assistant on Senate, Ita Enang.
On Tuesday, after weeks of ministerial screening, Mr. Saraki submitted the list to Mr. Buhari at the presidential villa.
The two men later shook hands and posed for photographs.
Mr. Buhari and the Senate president had not enjoyed the best of relationships since Mr. Saraki’s emergence as senate leader, against his party’s directive.
The Senate president is also currently facing charges of alleged false declaration of asset and corruption. He dismissed the charges as politically motivated.
Fielding questions from journalists after a closed-door meeting with the president, Mr. Saraki said the quality of ministerial nominees submitted by the president, made it easy for the Senate to screen and confirm them.
“You noticed that in some cases we delayed the number of one or two, it is all part of politics, of behind the scene, but at the end of the day we finished with them, that is all about give and take and eventually I am happy with what the senators have done,” he said.
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