The Senate, on Tuesday, postponed its annual vacation scheduled to commence on Thursday, July 25 by one week to screen the ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari submitted Tuesday.

The list of 43 ministerial nominees read by the senate president, Mr. Ahmad Lawan were Dr. Ikechukwu Ogah (Abia) and Mohammed Musa Bello(Adamawa).

Others include Godwill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Chris Ngige (Anambra), Sharon Ikeazor (Anambra), Adamu Adamu (Bauchi), Ambassador Maryam Katagun (Bauchi), Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa), George Akume (Benue), Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno), Goddy Jedy Agba (Cross River), Festus Keyamo (Delta), Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi), Osagie Ehanire (Edo) Clement. Ike (Edo).

The rest are Richard Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti), Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu), Ali Isa Pantami (Gombe), Emeka Nwajiuba (Imo), Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa), Zainab Ahamed (Kaduna), Muhammad Mahmood (Kaduna), Sabo Nanono (Kano), Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (Kano), Hadi Sirika (Katsina), Abubakar Malami (Kebbi), Ramatu Tijjani (Kogi), Lai Mohammed (Kwara), Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos).

Adeleke Mamora (Lagos), Mohammed H. Abdullahi (Nasarawa), Zubair Dada (Niger), Olamilekan Adegbite (Ogun), Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Sunday Dare (Oyo), Paulen Talen (Plateau), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Maigarai Dingyadi (Sokoto), Sale Mamman (Taraba), Abubakar D. Aliyu (Yobe), Sadiya Umar Faruk (Zamfara) also made the list.

The chairman, senate ad-hoc committee on media and public affairs, Senator Adeyeye Adedayo who announced the postponement at a press conference said the screening of the nominees commences tomorrow.

He also said the lawmakers on Friday and Monday against their Tuesday to Thursday’s sitting days “so that we can finish the screening exercise between Wednesday (tomorrow) and end of next week.”

Besides, Adedayo said the senate will suspend its rules to allow the screening to last till as late as 10pm from Wednesday.

He assured Nigerians that the screening of the nominees would be thorough.

“I want to tell you that this is a major sacrifice by the senators,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the ministerial list does not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC)

The spokesman for the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan who stated this in a statement on Tuesday said the list is replete with incompetent individuals who failed in their erstwhile ministerial assignments and left their ministries in shambles.

“Indeed, such a ministerial list can only come from a leadership that does not have mandate of the people. It is a complete waste of time and cannot fulfill the expectation of Nigerians.

“The list has further shown President Buhari and APC’s insensitivity and disdain for Nigerians and it does not in any way reflect their hope and eagerness for a better Nigeria.

“Furthermore, in recycling failed yesterday’s men for today’s assignment, President Buhari and the APC have left no one in doubt that they have no vision to move our nation out of the economic and security predicaments into which they have plunged us in the last four years.

“A committed and responsive leadership would have widely consulted with Nigerians before compiling a ministerial list, given the current situation in the country.

“If, indeed, President Buhari and the APC mean well for Nigerians and are interested in revamping our critical sectors, they would not have ended up with a list of those who will help conceal the huge corruption in the Buhari administration in the last four years, as well as those who will assist in channeling funds to individuals and groups used by the APC to rig the 2019 presidential election.

“Strangely, the list has no space for youths demography, those to whom the future is said to belong.

“The PDP holds that with this development, it is clear that the only way our nation can come out of our present economic and security quandary lies in the retrieval of Atiku Abubakar’s stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal.

“That is the way our citizens will enjoy the benefit of having an array of highly qualified and patriotic Nigerians as ministers to move the nation forward,” he said.