The Sen. Ahmed Lawan-led Senate has come under severe criticism from former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode for its handling of the ministerial screening.
The Herald can report that nearly 20 out of the 43 ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate for screening and approval by President Muhammadu Buhari were asked to “take a bow and go”.
Some of the beneficiaries of the practice were ex-Senators and female nominees.
Reacting in a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode accused the Ninth Senate of trivialising the serious business of screening ministerial nominees, describing it as a “crass display of comic relief which is far below the Senate”.
The controversial ex-minister said, “When I was nominated to be a Minister by OBJ 13 years ago in 2006 I was screened by the Senate for no less than two hours and thirty gruelling and very difficult minutes on live television.
“There is no question that they did not ask me and there is none that I did not answer.
“In those days days the Senate had great men and powerful intellectuals in its ranks.What we see today in the name of Ministerial screening is a pitiful joke. “Smile, show your teeth, bow and go” is NOT screening: it is a crass display of comic relief which is far below the Senate.”
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