Senate slates Amaechi, Lokpobiri, three others for screening (Updated)

In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . .

The Senate has slated former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi and four other  ministerial nominees for screening as the Red Chamber resumes plenary Thursday.

Other nominees billed for screening Thursday are Heineken Lokpobiri, Claudius Omoleye Daramola, Prof. Adewole Isaac, Shehuri Mustapha and Ocholi James.

The Senate had adjourned abruptly on Tuesday after screening three nominees. The red chamber had also shifted the screening of Amaechi because its committee on petitions had not submitted its report on the petitions submitted against Amaechi to the full House.

 Meanwhile, the hurdles against the ministerial nomination of Amaechi, may be far from over, as the Senator representing Rivers East, Senator George Thompson Sekibo, Thursday said he and other Senators from the state are yet to change their stand.

According to Sekibo, Senators from the state cannot change their stand if their constituents, the people of Rivers State, do not ask them to do, insisting that the petition against Amaechi is not their personal opinion but what the people of the state say.

Sekibo said they have nothing against his screening but the issue at stake is his confirmation.

“We have nothing against his screening but that is different from confirmation. He can be screened if the entire Senate decides so. But we already have our prayers before the senate and it is our desire that they are answered”, he said.

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