Ahead of the ministerial screening, governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its federal lawmakers had a marathon meeting.

The meeting stretched into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the set day for the screening to begin.

However, the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State and representative of the lawmakers, Leo Ogor, told journalists that the meeting had nothing to do with the screening, but was a strategic meeting in view of current political development.

Mr Mimiko also said that meeting considered issues relating to the governorship elections coming up in Kogi and Bayelsa States.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki had on Tuesday, Ocotber 6, unveiled a 21-man list expected to make up the President’s cabinet if they scale through their screening on Tuesday, October 13.

The second batch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministerial nominees was presented to the Nigerian Senate on Monday, October 12.

The Senate announced this via its Twitter handle on Monday afternoon.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, who was accompanied by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang and his counterpart for the House Of Representatives, Honorable Suleiman Kawu, handed over the letter to the Senate President at exactly 4:24 pm.

The letter was sealed and would only be opened by the Senate President at the plenary on Tuesday.