President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday added 19 more names to the list of ministerial nominees sent to the senate for screening.
This is coming six days after the first 28 names were sent by the president.
This takes the total number of ministerial nominees to 47.
According to section 147(3) of the 1999 constitution, as amended, the “President shall appoint at least one minister from each State, who shall be an indigene of such State”.
While historical differences exist on how many ministers have come from each state, the constitution specifies “at least one” from each state.
Amongst the newly added nominees, Lagos, Ogun, Kano and Kebbi, have two nominees each.
Other states with just one representative are Yobe, Taraba, Gombe, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Kano, Kogi, Osun, Niger, FCT and Plateau.
From the total of 47 nominees, Ogun has three nominees, 7 other states have two nominees each, while others have just one each.
The states with two nominees are; Katsina (Ahmad Dangiwa and Hannatu Musawa); Kano (Maryam Shetty and Abdullahi T Gwarzo); Lagos (Tunji Alausa and Lola Ade John); Kebbi (Yusuf Tanko Sununu and Atiku Bagudu).
Others are Bauchi (Yusuf M Tuggar and Ali Pate); Cross River (Betta Edu and John Enoh); Niger (Mohammed Idris and Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi).
Ogun state has Ishak Salako, Bosun Tijani and Olawale Edun.
The ministerial nominees are screened by the committee of the whole chaired by the senate president.
The committee has finished screening the first batch of nominees.
