Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Senate President Bukola Saraki is likely to release the Senate’s Standing Committees before the end of this week.
This is just as former Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi and other ministers who were screened by the Senate last week will also be confirmed during tomorrow’s plenary.
The Senate Committees list will be coming on the heels of the release of same by the House of Representatives which was released last week Thursday.
A source close to the Senate President confided in LEADERSHIP last night that the list had been ready since but for the ministerial screening which has lately taken over the activities of the Senate, saying that the list would have been made public by now.
The source further hinted that both Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara had both met in London and harmonised the chairmanships of some of their sensitive committees like Appropriation, Finance and others with a view to getting lawmakers who could work harmoniously across both chambers.
Dogara had last week announced the composition of 96 House committees.
Meanwhile, Amaechi will finally heave a sigh of relief as the controversy surrounding his nomination will be brought to an end with his eventual confirmation as a minister of the Federal Republic as the Senate reconvene tomorrow.
Amaechi’s nomination has been enmeshed in crisis following several petitions written against his nomination. The PDP senators had last week refrained from asking the former Rivers State governor any questions during his nomination, claiming that they were yet to read the report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Public Petitions.
The Senate is yet to screen 18 out of the 36 nominated ministers and look set to complete the task by Thursday.
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