Ministerial list: “I am please with southeast nominees”, says Deputy Speaker Kalu
Ben Kalu, the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, has denied the reports that some southeast leaders are irked over persons picked for ministerial positions by President Bola Tinubu.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Levinus Nwabughiogu on Tuesday, Kalu said the reports are false, endorsing nominees from the regions.
He said, “To protect the sanity of the reading public, the office of the Deputy Speaker is hereby emphatically stating the report is not only a deluge of garbages, unfounded narratives and falsehood at its apogee but also the figment of the overheated imagination of the people and the medium that published it.”
“Similarly, it will also be preposterous and vexatious to say that the deputy speaker is working in cahoots with some other leaders to battle the President over the nomination of Onyejiocha of Abia amongst other nominees from the remaining 4 States of the southeast region,” he said.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu nominated Nkiruka Onyejeocha, Dave Umahi, Uche Nnaji, Uju Ken Ohaneye and Doris Uzoka from the five states in the Southeast, where they were confirmed by the Senate on Monday.
