Senate screens Alasoadura, Aliyu, Shehuri, Magash – TheNigerialawyer

As the screening exercise of the ministerial nominees entered
its second day in the Senate on Thursday, four nominations have
been confirmed by noon.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Senate
adjourned the exercise by 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday after screening 10
nominees.

Those screened as at 12:35 a.m. on Thursday are: Sen. Tayo
Alasoadura (Ondo), who is a former member of the Senate between
2015 and 2019.

Another nominee screened is Mr Mustapha Shehuri (Borno), the
immediate past minister State of Works, Power and Housing and a
former member of the House of Representatives.

The third nominee is Abubakar Aliyu (Yobe), a civil engineer,
who was deputy governor of Yobe between 2009 and 2019.

Also screened is Retired Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (Kano), a
former ECOMOG field commander.

The Senate unanimously waved some of its rules on screening of
the nominees because Alasoadura and Shehuri were once in the
National Assembly.

Magashi during his screening provided answers to some questions
on the security challenges in the country and ways to address
them.

On Aliyu, the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan who hails
from the same state commended his stewardship as state’s number two
man in the last 10 years.

Lawan thanked his colleagues for the support given to Aliyu and
other nominees screened as at the time of filing this report on
Thursday.

NAN further reports that among those who are currently waiting
in the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on
National Assembly Matters, Sen. Ita Enang, for screening are: Mr
Niyi Adebayo (Ekiti) and Sunday Dare (Oyo).

Others are: Mr Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa), a former governor of the
state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and
Mohammed Abdullahi (Nassarawa). (NAN)

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