BY Fredrick Nwabufo
A petition against Aisha Abubakar, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, has been submitted to the senate on the grounds that she is incompetent to be minister.
On Thursday, Ibrahim Gobir, the senator representing Sokoto-east at the national assembly, presented the petition, saying: “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 committe on Monday, she was screened on Tuesday and confirmed minister on Wednesday.
Chibuike Amaechi, former Rivers governor, is another ministerial nominee whose nomination has been challenged through a petition from senators from his state.
So far, three ministerial ministerial sominations have been openly challenged at the senate.
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