Festus Keyamo makes Tinubu’s ministerial list, dumps Mariam Shetty[Video]

VANGUARD

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN and immediate  past Minister of state for Labour and Productivity,  Festus Keyamo, from Delta  State, has been announced as a ministerial nominee of  President Bola Tinubu.

Keyamo was announced during the ongoing ministerial screening on the floor of the Senate by the Majority Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele on Friday.

[Video] Tinubu replaces Kano ministerial nominee, Shetty with Festus Keyamo pic.twitter.com/gAUsKbz4uH

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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.

Recall that President  Tinubu had on Wednesday forwarded the name of Shetty alongside eighteen other nominees, just as with Keyamo,  the number of Ministerial Nominees has now got to forty-eight.

This article originally appeared in Vanguard