- President Bola Tinubu’s candidate for a cabinet position, Stella Okotete, has been requested to be disqualified by the Nigerian Senate.
- This was alleged in a petition to the Senate from an Abuja-based attorney named Oladotun Hassan, who charged Okotete with egregious corruption.
- This was alleged in a petition to the Senate from an Abuja-based attorney named Oladotun Hassan, who charged Okotete with egregious corruption.
Abuja’s FCT – Oladotun Hassan, a human rights attorney, has submitted a petition to the Nigerian Senate requesting that the Red Chamber dismiss Stella Okotete, a ministerial nominee of President Bola Tinubu.
According to Nigerian Tribune, Hassan stated that the Senate ought to reject Okotete due to reported significant Nexim Bank corruption.
Hassan requested a thorough probe into what he called “round-tripping and recycling of different loans and use of various front-companies as a proxy to defraud the bank of billions of naira and dollars”.
The petitioner argued that Okotete was unqualified for the position and urged the Senate to overturn her nomination.
The senators were tasked with investigating Tinubu’s nominee for a ministerial position, according to the Abuja-based lawyer.
The petition partly read:
- Predicated upon our demand for the independent and conscientious thorough background investigation and profiling of the culprit’s academic credentials and sequence of events as stated in her unsubstantiated and ridiculously padded CV as follows:
- To investigate her academic profile as regards her school’s records of exams, school fees payments and NYSC Certificate, as well allowance payments during years of service.
- To investigate her disqualification by the Senate and her noncompliance to Senate resolution and ruling is highly contemptuous and disobedience to the constituted authority of Senate
Former governors and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, were included on the list.
The list of ministers approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu included 28 persons, including seven women.
Women have been underrepresented in both elected and appointed positions in Nigeria. Legit.ng has articles about the new female ministers.
Prior to their Senate screening, which will begin on Monday, July 31st, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 28 nominees for cabinet positions have started the necessary paperwork.
On Friday, July 28, in Abuja, Senator Abdullahi Gumel, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), announced this.
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