17/08/2023
Ministerial list: Trouble Looms As Women's Group Demands Okotete’s Total Ban, Writes Remi Tinubu |
More trouble has come the way of ministerial nominee, Delta State, Stella Okotete, whom the Senate failed to confirm as a women Civic group , Consortium of South-South Amazons for Nigeria has written to the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Remi Tinubu demanding a final expungement of the name of Stella from the Presidential list.
According to the letter jointly signed the group's coordinator Hon. Ossai Felicia Jaita and secretary General Arc. Osaretin K. Buraimo returning her name to the Senate for confirmation would be an embarrassment to the nation due to the avalanche of her indictments in presenting false records and her breach of Code of Conduct for public officers which led to her sack recommendation by the 8th Senate.
The group also condemned what it described as Okotete’s unbecoming manner of casting aspersions at some Elders of Delta State in which she accused of being behind her predicament.
While asking Remi Tinubu to prevail on her husband, President Tinubu to replace Okotete, the group also described the suspended nominee's moral character as questionable which they said will set a bad example for young women in the society.
The group while reacting to an article titled " Who is afraid of Stella Okotete"? Asked the suspended nominee to accept her fate after she was suspended based on a series of petitions laid against her bothering on "certificate forgery, breach of Code of Conduct, non-declaration of assets and operating of companies while in active service amongst other offenses.
The letter read in parts; "A Female Ministerial nominee,Stella Okotete from Delta State has resulted in attacking revered Personalities from our dear State, ever since her nomination was suspended by the Senate.
"We refer to an article sponsored by her titled "Who is afraid of Stella Okotete?" In which she tried to defend the series of facts upon which her Ministerial