Immediate past Minister of Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, from Delta State, has been nominated by President Bola Tinubu for a ministerial post.
Keyamo last minute nomination was announced during the ongoing ministerial screening on the floor of the Senate by the Majority Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele on Friday.
Meanwhile, President Tinubu has removed Dr. Maryam Shetty from Kano State as a Ministerial nominee that is billed to be screened today.
In a letter to the Senate and read by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, the President replaced her with Mairiga Mahmoud.
President Tinubu had on Wednesday forwarded the name of Shetty along side eighteen other nominees.
Keyamo’s nomination has now brought the number of Ministerial Nominees to forty eight, the highest in the democratic history of Nigeria – at a time Tinubu is asking Nigerians to make sacrifices.
Keyamo, who had played a major role during the election campaign, had been widely mocked on the social media after his name was remarkably missing in the two batches of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate for confirmation by President Tinubu.
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