A number of senators
walked out due to the nomination of Obanikoro as minister. Some of the All
Progressives Congress, APC was against the screening and subsequent
confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as minister; they could not stop the Senate yesterday as it confirmed his nomination among six other ministerial nominees.
confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as minister; they could not stop the Senate yesterday as it confirmed his nomination among six other ministerial nominees.
The Senate,
thereafter, confirmed the nomination of Obanikoro and the seven other nominees
screened before it.
They were,
Mrs Hauwa’u Lawan from Jigawa State, Kenneth Kobani from Rivers State, Senator
Joel Danlami Ikenya from Taraba State and Senator Patricia Akwashiki from
Nasarawa State.
Others are,
Professor Nicholas Akise Ada, Benue State, Col. Augustine Akobundu (Abia State)
and Fidelis Nwankwo, Ebonyi State.
The spirited protest
of the opposition legislators, led by Senators Bukola Saraki, APC, Kwara
Central and Ganiyu Solomon, APC, Lagos West, who raised points of order to stop
Obanikoro’s confirmation by the senate along seven other ministerial nominees
screened before him, made the Senate session to be dramatic and tension-soaked.
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