PRESIDENT TINUBU’S PROPOSAL TO SELECT 20 SPECIAL ADVISERS IS GRANTED BY THE SENATE.

The Senate gave President Bola Tinubu’s selection of 20 Special Advisers approval on Tuesday.

This followed the President’s request for approval in a letter to the Upper Chamber.

However, the names of the special advisers were not included in the letter that Senate President Ahmad Lawan read during plenary session. In response to the demand, Lawan stated that the President’s team’s involvement is of “utmost urgency”.

We’ll just approve it from here as there isn’t a name for the special advisers. We believe that this is an urgent matter, the senate president remarked.

Days earlier, Tinubu had appointed Senator George Akume, a former minister of special duties, as his secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), and the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, as his chief of staff.