By Nathaniel Zacchaeus, Abuja
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Mr Abbas Lawal Balarabe from Kaduna State as Ministerial nominee.
Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio which he read on the floor of the red chamber during plenary on Tuesday.
The President, in the letter, asked the Senate to confirm Balarabe and two other ministerial nominees, Dr Jamila Bio Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande.
The Presidency had in September announced the nomination of Jamila Bio Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande by Tinubu to serve as the Minister of Youth and Minister of State for Youth respectively pending their confirmation by the Senate.
Balarabe replaces a former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate.
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The nominee had chaired a 65-man transition committee ahead of the swearing-in of Senator Uba Sani as governor of Kaduna on May 29.
As a former Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Balarabe also headed the transition committee of the state in 2015 and served as the vice-chairman of the committee in 2019.
The Red Chamber had in August declined to confirm three ministerial nominees which included el-Rufai, Senator Abubakar Sani Danladi (Taraba), and Stella Okotete (Delta) over non-security clearance.
Tinubu in his letter urged the Senate to consider his request expeditiously.
