The Kaduna State ministerial nominee, Abbas Balarabe, collapsed during his screening before the Senate.<\/p>\n
Balarabe had just finished his presentation to the lawmakers and collapsed while one of the Kaduna senators was praising him.<\/span><\/p>\n Following his collapse, the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, started to scream, \u201cBring water and sugar. Call Dr Musa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Akpabio then immediately called for a closed-door session.<\/span><\/p>\n Balarabe was nominated as a replacement for the former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.<\/span><\/p>\n His name was conveyed in a letter read by Akpabio at the plenary on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n Balarabe\u2019s name was read alongside Dr Jamila Ibrahaim and Ayodele Olawande as Minister of Youths and Minister of State for Youths respectively who were earlier nominated by the President.<\/span><\/p>\n Balarabe, a former Secretary to the Kaduna State government, was in April appointed to lead a 65-man transition committee ahead of the swearing-in of Uba Sani.<\/span><\/p>\n The Senate had in August refused to confirm the nomination of El-Rufai alongside former Nexim bank Managing Director, Stella Okotete (Delta State), and Abubakar Danlandi, a nominee from Taraba State.<\/span><\/p>\n The President had earlier sent 48 nominees to the Senate who passed 45 as ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kaduna State ministerial nominee, Abbas Balarabe, collapsed during his screening before the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7764,7765,318,7393,4826],"class_list":["post-15879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-abbas-balarabe","tag-faints","tag-kaduna-state","tag-ministerial-nominee","tag-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}