Ministerial List: Why Ekweremadu Attacks President Buhari

Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate president, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent ministerial appointments.

He claimed that the president violated the provisions of the federal character as contained in Section 14 of the Nigerian Constitution.

The lawmaker said the nominations “made so far by the current administration are clearly lop-sided that it left the South-East totally empty-handed”.

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“I think in this country that is just recovering from a most divisive and bitter fought presidential election in its history; in a country where vicious civil war had been fought and scars are fresh; in a country where a presidential election, believed to have been won by (someone from) a part of the country was annulled; in a country which has deteriorated from one that citizens held high political and civil service offices outside their places of origin to one in which they hardly do so any more; and indeed in a country where there has been consistent outbreaks of militancy and restiveness by people who believe they have been shortchanged, maltreated, and, therefore, better off outside the Nigerian commonwealth, I firmly believe from the depth of my heart and conscience that you do not even need a soothsayer or compulsion of the constitution to know that you must necessarily carry every part of the country along.” Ekweremadu said.

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However, the Senate has podtponed the screening of President Buhari’s ministers slated for today, October 21.

Nelson Oyewo, the Acting Clerk of the Senate, announced that the next plenary session will be Thursday, October 22.

The shift of plenary session was necessitated out of a need for Senate president, Bukola Saraki, to appear at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Wednesday.

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