President Tinubu submitted a total of 48 ministerial nominees with the majority of them confirmed by the members of the Nigerian Senate.The South-east region has the lowest number of nominees with five persons on the list.
One of the senators, Tony Nwoye , stressed that the insufficient ministerial representation from the South-east region in Mr Tinubu’s government does not promote national unity and national loyalty as enshrined in section 14 of the 1999 constitution as amended. The group said that the creation of states in the country was carried out by successive military governments and that the South-east was shortchanged because they did not “play much part” in the exercise.
It added that the situation further resulted in the reduction of the number of senators, members of federal and state houses of assembly, governors, and local government areas.