Malik Yahya/
The Kaduna State ministerial nominee, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, selected by President Bola Tinubu to replace former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has collapsed during his screening before the Senate.
Balarabe had just finished his presentation to the lawmakers and collapsed while one of the Kaduna senators was praising him.
Following his collapse, the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, started to scream, “Bring water and sugar. Call Dr Musa.”
He thereafter called for a closed-door session.
Balarabe’s name was read by Akpabio at today’s plenary alongside Dr Jamila Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande as Minister of Youths and Minister of State for Youths respectively who were earlier nominated by the President.
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.
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.