*** The Senate has said it is waiting to receive the list of ministerial nominees from the presidency
*** Says the delay in the submission of the list will not prevent senators from embarking on their scheduled annual vacation
*** Federal lawmakers are scheduled to commence their annual vacation at the end of July
By Jennifer Y omiloli
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, July 9 said that it is waiting to get the rundown of ministerial nominees from the presidency whenever it is submitted.
The Senate, in any case, said that the clear postponement in the accommodation of the ministerial rundown by President Muhammadu Buhari won’t keep legislators from leaving on their booked yearly get-away.
Federal government legislators are planned to start their yearly vacation toward the end of July, 2019.
Chairman, Senate committee on media and public affairs, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, who tended to journalists in Abuja said that it was not the obligation of the Senate to decide when the ministerial list would be submitted to it.
Adeyeye likewise said that the Senate isn’t constitutionally enabled to demand for the rundown from the presidency.
The Senate, he stated, will wait until the president chooses to send the rundown to it.
His words: “That is the prerogative of the Executive. We are not going to help them to do their job. The Senate cannot generate the list of ministers on its own.
“It is the prerogative of the president to send his ministerial nominee list to the Senate and when he does that we will consider it.
“That is our constitutional mandate. It is not even within our powers to even advise. We will wait until the matter is transmitted to us.
“The executive are aware of the timetable of the Senate. There is a particular time the Senate will go on recess. That being in mind they should be mindful of when they will carry out this constitutional responsibility.
“That is our constitutional mandate but it is not within our power to even advise or anything, so we will wait until the list is submitted. I will not say anything more than that.
“I don’t think this matter should worry any Nigerian. We are supposed to receive the letter with the list of ministerial nominee transmitted to the Senate.
“If a thing is not my job why should it worry me. When the list comes to us, Nigerians will look at the time the list arrives here and the time the list is approved.”
He noted that both the executive arm of government and most Nigerians are aware of the timetable of the Senate.
“When the matter comes before us, we will look at it and carry out our constitutional responsibility,” he concluded.
In the mean time, an ongoing media report propose that one of the elements deferring the determination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list is the serious inward wrangling/interests shaking the ruling party, which has made the president to delay.
