BREAKING: Kaduna ministry nominee collapses on stage and is taken out of the chambers

Abbas Balarabe, a Kaduna State nominee for a ministerial position, passed out while describing his background to the Senate on Wednesday.

When it was his turn to be inspected by parliamentarians for confirmation, he was the second to go, but he passed out soon after.

He immediately passed unconscious, and the Sergeant-at-Arms told the reporters to leave the Chambers.

In order to provide him medical care, Senator Ishaku Abbo of Adamawa North personally rushed him to the National Assembly Clinic.

He was unable to be roused to walk by himself, so an ambulance was sent straight to the chamber with a wheel chair.

The former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, was succeeded by the candidate after his confirmation was denied for security reasons.