Lillian Ify Chukwu
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Senator Ibrahim Gobir representing Sokoto-East has petitioned the national assembly on Thursday against the nomination of Aisha Abubakar as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the ground that she is incompetent.
According to the Cable, while presenting the petition, Gobir declared that, “The Sokoto people want her to be replaced with a more competent person.”
He thereafter laid it before the senate, after which Senate President Bukola Saraki referred it to the committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions. Aisha, who is in the second list of ministerial nominees forwarded to the senate on Monday, is the second woman whose nomination has been challenged through a petition.
The nomination of Amina Mohammed was challenged through a petition by a group from Kaduna state, who erroneously thought she was nominated to represent Kaduna rather than her native Gombe state. However, after clarifying her state of origin with the fact-finding committee on Monday, she was screened on Tuesday and confirmed as a minister on Wednesday.
