Tinubu seeks Senate confirmation for minister, CBN dep gov

President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking the screening and confirmation of Muttaqha Rabe Darma as Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Lamido Abubakar Yuguda as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and Benedict Umeno for reappointment as a member of the Code of Conduct Bureau.

The requests were conveyed in separate letters read on the floor by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday.

Darma’s nomination was referred to the Committee of the Whole for consideration, while Yuguda’s was sent to the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, and Umeno’s to the Committee on Anti-Corruption.

Both committees were given one week to report back.

Darma, a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Bayero University, Kano, was the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s deputy governorship candidate in Katsina State in 2023 before the party expelled him for endorsing APC candidate Dikko Radda at a meeting it described as unauthorised.

Yuguda is a former Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission and spent over three decades at the Central Bank of Nigeria before his nomination.

Umeno, if confirmed, will represent the South-East on the Code of Conduct Bureau.