President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday send the much-awaited ministerial list to the senate, the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said.

Mr Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) made this known at the launch of a book he wrote titled: “Leadership Through Communication” (Volumes 1 and 2).

The senate leader said Mr Tinubu could not attend the unveiling of the book because he had to be away for the next 48 hours to decide on the ministerial list.

Mr Bamidele said Mr Tinubu’s son, Seyi, informed him of the president’s plan to call. He said the president soon reached out to him.

He quoted Mr Tinubu as saying, “Let me tell you, and you must encourage me. I need to make myself unavailable for the next 48 hours because a correspondence must come to the Senate, a very crucial correspondence.”

The senator said Mr Tinubu sought Nigerians’ prayer for him to make the right decision.

“This is to be able to make the right decision within the next 24 hours so that when Nigerians hear the list of his ministers, they will say yes, this is uncommon,” Mr Bamidele further quoted the president as saying.

The senator said the call was important because “the president asked that we pray to God to grant him all the wisdom in taking this decision and providing leadership to the country”.

Mr Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District, further said the book was a collection of papers he developed at different fora.

(NAN)