IKEJA -Senate President David Mark says the much-awaited ministerial list will be made public once it gets to the senate, urging Nigerians to be patient.

“When it is officially handed over to me, I’ll give it to you,” Mark told journalists who besieged him for an inkling of the list at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Ikeja.
Mark said the upper chamber of the National Assembly would do justice to the list once it was received.

The Senate President, however, said the Minister to head the newly created Niger Delta Ministry, might not necessarily be an indigene of the troubled region.

Mark said that ability to perform, rather than indigeneship, would be the key to the appointment of the minister to head the ministry.

“I don’t think that should be an issue because what we want is a Nigerian who can perform,” Mark said.

He also urged those clamouring for state creation to await the review of the 1999 constitution as this would determine the next line of action.

“It’s not a one man show, it depends on what the constitutional review would do,” he stated.
On the Freedom of Information bill, the Senate President assured that the upper House was doing its best to ensure its passage.