President Bola Tinubu has replaced Maryam Shetty with Mariga Mahmoud as a ministerial nominee.
The president communicated the withdrawal in a letter to the Senate as the screening of ministerial nominees resumed on Friday.
Senate president, Godswill Akpabio. Read the letter from the president during plenary.
Tinubu also added Festus Keyamo, former minister of state for labour and employment, to the nomination list.
Shetty was a nominee from Kano State. Her replacement, Mahmoud, is also from Kano.
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Tinubu on Wednesday added 19 names to the first batch of nominees sent to the senate for screening. The second batch was sent six days after the first batch of 28 names was sent to the lawmakers.
The addition of Keyamo brings the total number of ministerial nominees to 48. As of the time of filing this report, Gboyega Oyetola, former governor of Osun; Ibrahim Gaidam, former governor of Yobe and incumbent senator representing Yobe East; Sabi Abdullahi, a former senator; and Heineken Lokpobiri, another ex-lawmaker, have been screened and asked to “take a bow and go”.
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