jaytee01:
Go and jail him na

hinwazaka:
If you like, source out, ridiculous comments from various angles, about Ameachi's purported clearance in the not so distant future, but come next week, you will wake up, to hear of his subsequent exclusion from the list. He will join Ibeto in the land of LOSERS.

franchizy:
Only fools will think Amaechi will not be screened and confirmed.
Amaechi is the back bone of APC in Rivers state.
APC cannot be alive in Rivers state without Amaechi.
Wike knows with Amaechi as a minister his seat as a governor is shaking.
The powers and previllages wike enjoyed as a minister he knows Amaechi will be accorded same.
It will be a slap on the ruling party to allow wike actualize his devilish plot.
I pity the wailers on NL as they do not know what politics is all about.
The screening will avail Amaechi the opportunity to finish wike on the floor of the senate.

tomakint:
Indeed, Nigeria is back to business as usual, all those noise about change is just for dummies afterall......quote me anywhere, if Amaechi is made Minister of the Federal Republic, many Nigerians will never take Buhari's anti-corruption crusade serious. Buhari is about to mess himself up, to even think a Senate President with corrupt charges of that magnitude is still presiding over Senate affairs is alarming and laughable. What a pity!

tomakint:
Indeed, Nigeria is back to business as usual, all those noise about change is just for dummies afterall......quote me anywhere, if Amaechi is made Minister of the Federal Republic, many Nigerians will never take Buhari's anti-corruption crusade serious. Buhari is about to mess himself up, to even think a Senate President with corrupt charges of that magnitude is still presiding over Senate affairs is alarming and laughable. What a pity!

tunwumi:
I have a question. Has any nominee ever failed senate screening? If yes who is the the nominee and when was that?

tunwumi:
I have a question. Has any nominee ever failed senate screening? If yes who is the the nominee and when was that?

GOATandYAMtheory:
I want to see wike's face

tunwumi:
I have a question. Has any nominee ever failed senate screening? If yes who is the the nominee and when was that?

[size=14pt]Why Agusto was not cleared, by Senator.[/size]

From Yomi Odunuga, Abuja Bureau Chief

Category:⁠Politics | Date:2007-08-10

Arrogance and a needless display of his academic brilliance caused Chief Bode Agusto his clearance as a minister after being screened by the Senate, the Vice Chairman Senate Committee on Home Affairs, Chief Nimi Amange, has said.

Amange, in an interview with reporters in Abuja, said Agusto did not satisfy the Senate despite the fact that he answered most of the questions.

Agusto, a nominee from Lagos State, failed to scale the hurdle of the screening by the Senate out of 40 ministerial nominees.

Justifying the Senate’s position, Amange said, "I read one of the papers where a Lagos State senator who is my friend was complaining bitterly about the disqualification of Agusto. The fact is that the Senate did a very proper job as far as I’m concerned.

" The young man is brilliant, but that is not the only criteria required for you to represent Nigeria.

"The young man came and was telling us all sorts of stories. The young man was telling us how his mother went to school, how his children are schooling abroad. How his father has a road named after him in Lagos. Is that what we were there for?"

He faulted Agusto for arguing against the autonomy of the National Assembly, saying that he went beyond the limit.

" If you are a teacher and you give me 10 questions and say, out of 10 questions, answer six. And I say these are easy questions and I decided to answer all. What am I telling the teacher?

"I will fail even if I got all the 10 questions right, I will still fail because I was asked to answer only six."

"PDP, ANPP, and AC senators all voted against his nomination and he failed," he said.

Amange, who is representing Bayelsa East at the upper legislative chamber, also called on the Federal Government to be pro-active in dealing with the crisis in the Niger Delta in order to engender peace.

tomakint:
Indeed, Nigeria is back to business as usual, all those noise about change is just for dummies afterall......quote me anywhere, if Amaechi is made Minister of the Federal Republic, many Nigerians will never take Buhari's anti-corruption crusade serious. Buhari is about to mess himself up, to even think a Senate President with corrupt charges of that magnitude is still presiding over Senate affairs is alarming and laughable. What a pity!

Sparrow13:
Refusing to screen Amechi will be a great disrespect for APC and PMB, and no one in the senate is going to allow himself to be a scapegoat

franchizy:
Only fools will think Amaechi will not be screened and confirmed.
Amaechi is the back bone of APC in Rivers state.
APC cannot be alive in Rivers state without Amaechi.
Wike knows with Amaechi as a minister his seat as a governor is shaking.
The powers and previllages wike enjoyed as a minister he knows Amaechi will be accorded same.
It will be a slap on the ruling party to allow wike actualize his devilish plot.
I pity the wailers on NL as they do not know what politics is all about.
The screening will avail Amaechi the opportunity to finish wike on the floor of the senate.

kamez:
the fact that amaechi even made the nominee list is making me wonder...


with the change buhari promised, i never expected to see these old faces.

ikwubaba:


Hm. We hear you. So that the matter can remain in court indefinitely and minister from Rivers too go hold on indefinitely. Na you get sense. pass abi? How people expect Buhari who is a victim of smear campaign all his life to listen to jesters is simply amazing. Intelligence and common sense is indeed lacking.

naptu2:


Bode Agusto of Lagos State was not confirmed in 2007.

The senators felt that he was arrogant and trying to show that he was smarter than them.

(I watched it live. I can't remember everything that was said, but I do remember that he was arguing with the senators).

tunwumi:
I have a question. Has any nominee ever failed senate screening? If yes who is the the nominee and when was that?

hinwazaka:
If you like, source out, ridiculous comments from various angles, about Ameachi's purported clearance in the not so distant future, but come next week, you will wake up, to hear of his subsequent exclusion from the list. He will join Ibeto in the land of LOSERS.