Ebun-Oluwa Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has claimed that President Bola Tinubu did not submit his cabinet candidates to the Senate in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.
Adegboruwa argued that Tinubu’s alleged failure to submit more than 28 ministerial nominees to the Senate, notwithstanding the number of states in the country, was a violation of the constitution.
On Thursday, when appearing on a show on Channels Television, the seasoned attorney made the remark in question.
He argued that the President should not be able to ignore constitutional requirements and that compliance should be comprehensive.
He began, “First of all is to state that from the perspective of the law, we do not have ministers currently because the president did not fulfil the requirements of the constitution in nominating the ministers or sending the list.”
The first thing the constitution makes quite plain is that each of the 36 states in the federation must have at least one cabinet nominee who is a native of that state.
After taking the oath of office, he has 60 days to send these nominees, as required by law.
On May 29th, the president took the oath of office. Since the number of states in Nigeria is greater than the number of ministerial nominations he submitted (28), he has not conformed with the constitution.
You don’t get to pick and choose whatever parts of the Constitution you follow. The adherence ought to be comprehensive; it can’t be partial.
For the purposes of making ministerial nominations, there are only 36 states, but the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is included in that number.
The President has thus far not complied with the law by failing to deliver 37 names by July 27.
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