Tinubu’s ministerial nominee, Balarabe Lawal, collapses during Senate screening

The Kaduna State ministerial nominee Alh. Balarabe Lawal on Wednesday collapsed during a ministerial screening at the Senate.

He collapsed shortly after he read his resume and was awaiting questions from the Senators.

Alh. Lawal is representing Kaduna State. He replaced Mallam Nasir El’Rufai who was first nominated but was stepped down following a security report against him.

He is billed to be the Minister of Environment.

He is one of the three Ministerial nominees whose names had been forwarded by President Bola Tinubu that had appeared before the Senate for confirmation.

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The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, had called for a Doctor to attend to him, and ordered television cameras to stop recording.

Akpabio also directed that the Senate resolve into an executive session.

Recall that Balarabe was nominated as a replacement for Nasir El-Rufai, who was rejected by the Senate.

Balarabe had chaired a 65-man transition committee ahead of the swearing-in of Senator Uba Sani as governor of Kaduna State on May 29.

He was a Secretary to the Kaduna State Government (SSG) and had headed the transition committee of the state in 2015 and served as the vice chairman of the committee in 2019.

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