President Bola Tinubu has withdrawn nomination of Maryam Shetty from Kanoand replaced her with Mairiga Mahmoud even as he increases the Ministerial nominees to 48 with the inclusion of Festus Keyamo from Delta state.
As the Senate begins screening of the 19 fresh ministerial nominees forwarded to it on Wednesday for confirmation, the President has dropped nomination of the woman from Kano. .
The dropped nominee as stated in a letter forwarded to the Senate and read by Senator Godswill Akpabio, is Dr Maryam Shetty from Kano State.
The President however, in the letter, replaced Shetty with Dr Mariga Mahmud and also nominated Festus Keyamo for consideration and confirmation.
