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ebere jackson
After receiving the list of screened ministers from the senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated his earlier statement that some ministers will be without portfolios.
According to Vanguard, the president made this disclosure after receiving the list earlier today at the presidential villa in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari exchanging a warm handshake with senate president, Bukola Saraki after receiving the list of screened ministers from the latter on Tuesday, November 3, 2015.
The president had spoken about the possibility of some ministers who had been screened, to be without portfolios because Nigeria cannot afford to pay all of them.
In a rather contradictory statement, the senior special adviser to the president on media, Garba Shehu, stated in a recent interview, that the ministers would not all have full control.
President Buhari has however, insisted that there would be no jobs for some screened ministerial nominees, because although the constitution stipulates 36 ministers, the available ministries were not up to that number.
Meanwhile, the presidency has denied reports that the list of screened ministers and their portfolios, which has been making rounds in the social media were from the presidency.
Presidential aide, Femi Adesina, said that the list has not been formally assigned, adding that the president would allocate the portfolios when he is ready to swear-in the ministers.
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