The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele has announced that the Ministerial List of President Bola Tinubu will be received by the Senate in the next 48 hours.
Senator Bamidele, who stated this at a Lecture to mark his Diamond Jubilee Birthday and Book Presentation in Abuja on Tuesday, said that President Tinubu personally told him on the phone wishing him on his 60th birthday anniversary.
“The President called me on the phone around 10:03 am that he will not be able to attend the birthday lecture and book presentation because of the communication he needed to submit to the Senate in the next 48 hours.
Bamidele quoting Tinubu said: “Let me tell you and you must encourage me, I need to make myself unavailable for the next 48 hours because a correspondence must come to the Senate, a very crucial correspondence
“So Mr. President prayed for me. We should tell the rest of the Nigerians to pray for him to be able to make the right decision within the next 24 hours so that when Nigerians hear the list of his ministers, they will say ‘Yes, this is uncommon’. And join us to pray for Mr President. He needed to be away from any kind of influence.”
Speaking at the event, the guest lecturer and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Toyin Ogundipe, lamented the high cost of governance and the expensive lifestyle of political officeholders.
He called for sacrifice on their part before ordinary Nigerians would be able to do the same, citing an example of a situation where both Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), and Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs) are part of the convoy of the President and the Vice President, noted they have no business in the convoys of President and Vice President once the Police are in the convoy.
“There is nothing VIO, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) are doing in the entourage of the President and Vice President once you have Police in the convoy”.
“There is a need for our leaders to reduce the number of vehicles in their convoy so that Nigerians will know that you feel their pains,” Ogundipe said.
He stressed the need for political officeholders to reduce the number of vehicles in their convoy to show Nigerians that they feel their pain during this period.
On his part, the President of the Senate, Goodwill Akpabio, lamented that Governors in Nigeria always fight their predecessors immediately after they resume office.
Akpabio, however, applauded the celebrant for his loyalty to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for over 30 years when he first served as an aide to him in National Assembly in 1992.
Akpabio, who expressed displeasure with the attitude of governors to their predecessors in office said: “The Governor of Ekiti State is a great example of what leadership should be, he has remained steadfast.
“As a governor, the moment you hand over power to your successor, he will turn on you, either his taste will change or attitude, there is no governor in Nigeria that has no problem with their successor apart from Ekiti governor. That’s why we have to celebrate Senator Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele for the kind of person.”
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