The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has forwarded 65 additional nominees for ambassadorial positions to the Senate for screening and confirmation, as contained in a letter conveyed to the senate leadership
Penpushing reports that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, read the letter at Thursday’s plenary, while the nominees include career and non-career ambassadors and high commissioners.
The President in his latest letter, explained that 34 persons were nominated as career ambassadors and high commissioners, while 31 others were nominated as non-career ambassadors and high commissioners.
Penpushing further reports that this development comes a week after Tinubu transmitted the names of three nominees for non-career ambassadorial appointments, while some of the prominent nominees are Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate-past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)and former presidential aide Reno Omokri
The others are former governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro; Ondo North senator, Jimoh Ibrahim; Florence, the wife of the late governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, and former Ekiti State first lady, Angela Adebayo.
Penpushing also reports that notable nominees among the career ambassadorial nominees are Sulu-Gambari Ahmed (Kwara State) and Segun Ige (Edo state), while the non-career ambassadorial nominees include a former senator from Adamawa State, Grace Bent, and a former senator from Akwa-Ibom, Ita Enang.
Meanwhile, the Senate President after reading the letter, referred the request to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and directed the committee to report back within one week.
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