Non-Career Ambassadors’ list: Mamora,Tallen, Bugaje, 9 others dropped

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday re­submitted a new list of 46 Non-career ambassadori­al nominees to the Senate for confirmation.

Recall that the Upper House had on November 15, 2016 rejected the initial list of the Non-career ambassadors submitted by the President on October 19, 2016 on the condition that there were so many petitions against those nominated by the Presidency.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs led by Sena­tor Monsurat Sunmonu, had advised the Senate to reject the list and re-forward to the President for resubmission and re-jigging.

One of the major casualty on the revised list is former Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate and Immediate past Deputy Director- Gen­eral, Muhammadu Buhari Presidential Campaign Or­ganisation, Senator Olorun­nimbe Mamora from Lagos state.

It would be recalled that two out of the prominent pol­iticians on the first list, former National Secretary of the de­funct Action Congress of Ni­geria (ACN) Usman Bugaje and former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mrs Paullen Tallen, had earlier rejected their nominations.

Others dropped from the new list include, Jamila Ah­madu-Suka (Sokoto); Clifford Zirra (Adamawa); Enyan­tu Ifenne (Benue); Moham­med Hayatuddeen (Borno) Ayodele Ayodeji (Ekiti) Mo­hammad Yaro (Kaduna); Sola Iki (Ondo) Adegboyega Ogunwusi (Osun). Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor (Rivers), Mustapha Jaji (Taraba), and Abdullahi Garbasi (Zamfara).

The names of nominees on the new list read on the floor of the Senate yesterday are; Dr Mrs Uzoma Eminike, (Abia); Aminu Lawal (Adamawa); Maj Gen Godwin Umo (rtd) (Akwa Ibom); Christopher J. N Okeke (Anambra); Yusuf Maitama Tuggar (Bauchi);

Baba Madugu (Bauchi); Brig Gen Stanley Diriyai (Bayelsa); Prof Stephen Ugba (Benue); Baba Ahmad Jidda (Borno); Dr Etubom N. E Asuquo (Cross River); Engr Frank Efeduma (Delta); Mr Jonah Odo (Ebonyi); Uyagwe Igbe (Edo); Dr Eniola Ajayi (Ekiti); Maj Gen Chris Eze (Enugu); Alh Sulieman Has­san (Gombe).

Others are: Justice Sylva­nus Adiewere Nsofor (Imo); Amin Muhammad Dalha­tu (Jigawa); Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli (Kaduna); Deborah S. Iliya (Kaduna); Prof D. Abdulkadir (Kano); Haruna Ungogo (Kano);Justice Isa Dodo (Katsina), Moham­madu Rimi Barade (Katsi­na); Prof Tijjani Bande (Ke­bbi); Prof Y. O Aliu (Kogi); Nuruddeen Mohammed (Kwara), Prof Mohammed Yisa (Kwara); Justice George Adesola Oguntade (Lagos); Mrs Modupe Irele (Lagos); Mrs Musa Ilu Mohammad (Nasarawa); Ahmed Ibeto; (Niger); Suzanne Aderonke Folarin (Ogun); Jacob Ig­bekele Daodu (Ondo); Afola­han Adeyemi (Osun); Maj Gen Ashimiyu Olaniyi, rtd (Oyo); James G Dimka (Pla­teau); Dr Haruna Bawa Ab­dullahi (Plateau); Orji Ngo­fa (Rivers); Sahabi Isa Gada (Sokoto); Hon Kabiru Umar (Sokoto); Alh Hassan Jika Ardo (Taraba); Goni Modu Zanna Bura (Yobe); Alh Garba Gajam (Zamfara); Bala Mohammad (Zamfara); and Habiss Ibrahim Ugbada (FCT).

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