Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday mandated the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges to ensure that all petitions submitted to the Senate against ministerial nominees are considered before October 13 scheduled date for the screening and confirmation of the nominees.
Saraki gave the order after receiving a three-page petition by a group “Southern Kaduna Coalition,” against the nomination of Amina Ibrahim Mohammed.
The Senate President directed the Chairman of the Ethics and Privileges Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, “to ensure that all the petitions received against ministerial nominees are treated before the screening of nominees on Tuesday.
Senator Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna South) submitted the Southern Kaduna Coalition petition against the ministerial nominee and titled: “Petition against the submission of Amina Ibrahim Mohammed as ministerial nominee for Kaduna State.”
The petitioners said the Southern Kaduna Coalition is an amalgamation of all the pressure and public interest groups of Southern Kaduna extraction with the objectives, among others, of pursuing the socio-political interests of Southern Kaduna indigenes in the country and in the Diaspora.
The petitioners said that they are opposed to the nomination of Mohammed as a minister representing Kaduna State because she is not an indigene of the state.
The nominee, the petitioners said, is an indigene of Gombe State.
The petition reads in part, “In the discharge of his constitutional duty to appoint Ministers to form the Federal Executive Council, President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Wednesday, the 30th of September, 2015, submitted the list of the ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate vide your good office for screening and, possibly, clearance.
“At the plenary session of the Senate on Tuesday, the 6th of October, 2015, the list of the ministerial nominees was made known to the public.
“To our consternation, the ministerial nominee for Kaduna State was one, Amina Ibrahim Mohammed, who we have credible evidence to believe that she is an indigene of Gombe State and not Kaduna State as constitutionally required.
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