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Breaking: Why The Nigerian Senate Is Excluding Rotimi Amaechi’s Ministerial Screening For The Third Time

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The Nigerian Senate has postponed again the confirmation hearing for former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.

His screening had suffered several hitches in the last one week, caused by the delays by the Senate ad-hoc ethics committee, in submitting a report on the petitions written against his nomination.

Today, the Senate again put off his screening and four other nominees, earlier scheduled for today’s plenary session.

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, has been expected today, to submit its report on the petitions against the nomination of former governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi and Ms. Aisha Abubakar from Sokoto State as ministers.

The report of the committee, which is expected to be debated on the floor of Senate chamber, is meant determine the fate of Amaechi.

However, a new order paper of the senate on Tuesday morning listed only three ministerial nominees with former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi missing.

Instead, the senate said only three persons will now be screened.

They are Barrister Adebayo Shittu, the nominee from Oyo state, Professor Claudius Omoyele Daramola, the nominee from Ondo State and Khadija Abba Ibrahim, from Yobe State.

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