The Senate has come under fire for asking nominees to take a bow instead of Makign them face the rigour of questions from Senators
Senator Abdula’ziz Yari (APC-Zamfara) says the Senate is doing its best to ensure thorough screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees.
Mr Yari stated this when he answered questions from reporters shortly after he paid a private visit to Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday in Abuja.
Acccording to him, President Bola Tinubu hasn’t made mistake in the ministerial nominations.
“The Senate believes strongly that Tinubu has done thorough deep investigation about the credibility of each and every person brought on board.
”Take a bow and go you saw yesterday (Monday) is a tradition in the National Assembly. Anybody that is seen to take a bow and go is either one of the prominent person that served Nigeria for a long or his track record is known to every Nigerian.
”And the National Assembly has a tradition if you served as a Senator or a Honourable member of the House of Representatives is an honour to read your Curriculum Vitae and maybe explain yourself which they all have the record to ask you to take a bow and go.
”But where we need to do a thorough job for Nigerians we used to do it and you can see but whatever we did as a leaders Nigerian people will look as if we are not doing enough. A leader don’t dig deep enough but he do his best.
”So we are doing our best to ensure that we thoroughly interrogate the nominees to the satisfaction of Nigerians, ” Mr Yari said.
We Are Doing Our Best With Screening
He called on Nigerians to bear with the lawmakers and assured them that the National Assembly would continue to do its best in satisfying the yearnings of the people.
”As the President said yesterday (Monday) we are also saying the same thing, Nigerians should bear with us, we are there for them on their behalf and we are going to do our best, what only we need from them is to be patience.
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“We believe strongly the President has done his thorough investigation about the credibility of each and every one of them.
“We at the National Assembly are doing our best through and we ask you questions according to your discipline and what we are expecting from you,” he said.
Also, Mr Yari said that the nominees had a deep knowledge on Information about water resources, finances, education and health.
