President Bola Tinubu on
Friday withdrew the nomination of a ministerial nominee from Kano State, Maryam
Shetty. Instead, Festus Keyamo has been included in the list of 19 he submitted
to the Senate a few days ago.
The Senate had concluded
the confirmation of 28 nominees which the president had submitted on July 28. Keyamo
who was chief spokesman for the president during his campaign has now made the
list.
The former chief
spokesman of the All Progressive Congress Presidential Campaign (2023) and
ex-Minister of State, Labour, and Employment, Festus Keyamo SAN, has reacted to
his inclusion in President Bola Tinubu’s second ministerial list after being
previously mocked on Twitter by some Nigerians.
On Wednesday, some Twitter users besieged
Keyamo’s Twitter account to deride him for not making the first and second
ministerial lists after the president forwarded 47 ministerial nominees to the
Senate for confirmation.
Those listed persons
were drawn from the 36 states and the FCT. But on Friday, Tinubu withdrew the
nomination of the ministerial nominee from Kano State, Maryam Shetty, and added
Festus Keyamo and one Mairuga Mahmud.
The Senate confirmed the
development during plenary. Reacting, Keyamo shared a popular praise song to
show gratitude to God.
“He’s a miracle-working God. He’s a
miracle-working God. He’s the Alpha and Omega, He’s a miracle-working God!,” he
tweeted.
Recall that Keyamo was
at the forefront of promoting Tinubu during the campaigns prior to the 2023
polls. He also appeared on several television stations to defend his principal
while using his Twitter handle to respond to critics.
After Tinubu was
declared winner of the presidential election by the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, Keyamo appeared at least twice, before the
Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja as part of the APC legal team led
by Lateef Fagbemi SAN.
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