Senate Screening: Seven ministerial nominees “Take a bow-and-go”

The Senate has begun the screening of Ministerial Nominees sent to it last week by President Bola Tinubu for subsequent confirmation. 

With the commencement, fourteen out of the twenty-eight nominees that were screened, even as out of the fourteen, seven were asked to take a bow and go, with others drilled for some minutes where they were asked questions relating to security, infrastructure, issue of date of birth, among others.

Those who enjoyed the bow and go syndrome were a two- term of House of Representatives, Honourable Abubakar Momoh from Etsako Local Government Area of Edo State; Senator Abubakar Kyari, who was in the 8th and 9th Senate and presently the Acting National of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC; former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike; a Senator in the 8th Senate, Senator John Enoh; and the immediate Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru.

Others who were asked to take a bow and go were and former Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Nkiru Onyejiocha who represented Isuikwuato/ Umunneochi Federal Constituency, Abia State; former member, House of Representatives and Nigeria Ambassador to Germany, since 2017, Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar.