Amina defends ministerial nomination at senate

‎Amina Mohammed, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, on Monday affirmed before the senate committee on ethics that she is from Gombe state and not from Kaduna state.

Amina was responding to a petition tabled before the senate last Thursday by Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna south) against her nomination on the grounds that she was not from Kaduna.

La’ah had said that the people of Ka‎duna were unhappy with her ministerial nomination because she, a non-indigene, was taking the slot of the state in Buhari’s cabinet.

But she stated emphatically that she was not from Kaduna, but Gombe; hence would be representing the northeastern state in the cabinet.

“I was brought up in Kaduna state. My father, a civil servant, lived there‎, but I have no connection to the state,” she said.

“I am an indigene of Gombe state and the assumption is that I will represent them in the cabinet.”

Chibuike Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state, is also expected to appear the committee this afternoon to respond to allegations of looting and fraud.

‎Some members of the comm‎ittee present include Samuel Anyanwu (chairman), Bala Na’ Allah, Dino Melaye, Uche Ekwunife and Binta Garba.