Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate, has assured Nigerians that the National Assembly would do a thorough job of screening President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees.
Saraki says that personal differences shall be set aside, when the time comes to screen the nominees, while adding that the constitution would be adhered to.
The Senate President stated this on Saturday, while leading a delegation of Senators on a condolence visit to the family of the late Mrs. H. I. D. Awolowo in Ikenne, Ogun state.
“It is not going to be business as usual. What I can assure you is that we will go with the constitution, the rules, we will put Nigeria first.
‘The screening will be done with a high level of seriousness and what we are all about is our constitutional responsibility to ensure that we find people who are fit enough to be Ministers and particularly this time, to give President Buhari the support he requires.
“It is not about who you like or who you don’t like and I want to assure Nigerian that will not be the basis, it will be based on the constitution and based on ability and our own assessment of capacity of the nominees to perform.
“And I assure you that individual differences would not be an issue at all, and we have spoken with Senators and told them that.
“At this moment of time, we have made sure that as much as possible, we share with the public, we try to ensure that all we be covered live so that everybody can see, we will all be screening from our bedrooms and sitting rooms as well along with the Senators.
“You’re rest assured that we will do a good job Nigerians would be proud of.”
