A video showing Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, arriving at the National Assembly on Wednesday has emerged.
OsunDailyNG reports that before the former Speaker of the House of Representatives was let in, the Senate moved a motion to allow him to enter the Senate chamber.
It is understood that Gbajabiamila brought some more names contained in the ministerial list for confirmation by the Senate.
The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives submitted the second list with the second batch of ministerial nominees to Senate President Godswill Akpabio at exactly 03:19 pm.
Akpabio is expected to unveil the additional nominees after the screening of the 28 nominees in the first batch.
Already, the Senate has screened 25 nominees in the first batch as of the time of filing this report, and there are three more nominees to go.
Gbajabiamila had last Thursday submitted the first list with 28 nominees to the red chamber and said more names would be forwarded to the upper chamber.
The upper chamber had on Monday screened 14 of the 28-man list of ministerial nominees forwarded by the President last Thursday.
Those screened on Monday include former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike; Abubakar Kyari from Borno State; Nkiruka Onyejeocha (Abia State); Bello Muhammad (Sokoto State); Sani Abubakar Danladi (Taraba State); and Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa State).
The Senate had on Tuesday screened nine nominees and adjourned the exercise till Wednesday. Those screened on Tuesday are ex-governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi); Wale Edun, Uche Nnaji, Stella Okotete, Adebayo Adelabu, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Hannatu Musawa, and Musa Dangiwa.
Those screened on Wednesday are Dele Alake, Lateef Fagbemi, Muhammad Idris, Ali Pate and Doris Uzoka.
Others to be screened and cleared are Joseph Utsev (Benue State), Olubunmi Tunji Ojo (Ondo State), Betta Edu (Cross River State), Uju Kennedy Ohaneye (Anambra State), Abubakar Momoh (Edo State), John Enoh (Cross River State), Iman Suleiman Ibrahim (Nasarawa State), and Yusuf Maitama Tuggar (Bauchi State).
Watch the video below.
