{"id":106290,"date":"2023-07-20T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=106290"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:20:17","slug":"ministerial-nominees-senate-forced-into-closed-door-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ministerial-nominees-senate-forced-into-closed-door-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial\u00a0nominees: Senate forced into closed-door meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Senate is, at the moment, in a closed-door meeting few minutes into the commencement\u00a0 of today\u2019s\u00a0 plenary, largely necessitated by the list of ministerial nominees believed to have been submitted by the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after taking petitions, which is the fifth item in the Order Paper, the President of the\u00a0 Senate,\u00a0Godswill Akpabio, announced that the Senators should go into an executive session\u00a0 after the leader, Senator\u00a0Opeyemi\u00a0 Bamidele (APC, Ekiti\u00a0Central) had made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u00a0entered into the closed-door session\u00a0 at 11.59a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com gathered that the meeting may be about the ministerial nominees from President\u00a0 Bola\u00a0Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, the list\u00a0is already creating problems among the Senators, which explained the need for the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that there was a meeting the President\u00a0of the\u00a0Senate\u00a0had with major stakeholders\u00a0yesterday. 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