By David Kabiyesi
Nigerians who are eagerly looking forward to seeing the much anticipate ministerial lists of President Bola Tinubu that was earlier expected to be unveiled yesterday will have to wait till Thursday, iwitnesslive.com can report.
As stipulated by Nigerian Constitution, Thursday, July 27, which marks 60 days after the President’s inauguration and the lists is expected to have reach Senate floor before its due date.
President Tinubu, it was gathered, had submitted the list to the Senate last week, but the Senate purportedly postponed the announcement owing to modifications to the list which was again pushed back on the order paper after the Majority Leader, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi, moved the motion to postpone the announcement without any cogent reason.
He said the President called him on the phone at 10:03a.m. that he will not be able to attend the birthday lecture and book presentation because of the communication he needed to submit to the Senate in the next 48 hours.
“Let me tell you and you must encourage me; I need to make myself unavailable for the next 48 hours because a correspondence must come to the Senate, a very crucial correspondence.
“So Mr. President prayed for me. We should tell the rest of Nigerians to pray for him to be able to make the right decision within the next 24 hours so that when Nigerians hear the list of his ministers, they will say ‘yes, this is uncommon’. Join us to pray for Mr. President. He needed to be away from any kind of influence or interference.” Bamidele said, quoting Tinubu
