The president’s request, read in plenary Thursday by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, consists of 34 career ambassadors and High Commissioners as well as 31 non-career ambassadors and high commissioners.

The Presidency had last week released the names of 32 ambassador-nominees, featuring names of some prominent Nigerians.

Notable nominees among the non-career ambassador-nominees are: Sen. Ita Enang from Akwa-Ibom, Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo) and Sen. Folasade Bent (Adamawa) and Segun Ige (Edo).

Three ambassador-nominees, namely Kayode Are (Ogun), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Ayodele Oke (Oyo), earlier forwarded to the Senate, had been screened by the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The new nominees had consequently been forwarded to the committee for screening within one week.

The full list of the ambassadorial nominees per state  reads: “Ezenwa Chukwuemeka (Abia), Maimuna Ibrahim (Adamawa), Monica Ogochukwu (Anambra), Mohammed Lele (Bauchi), Endoni Sindo (Bayelsa) and Ahmed Mohammed Monguno (Borno).

Others are Jane Adams Michael (Cross River), Clark Alexandra (Delta), Chimma Davies (Ebonyi), Oduma Ehinose (Edo), Segun Ige (Edo), Adeyemi Emmanuel (Ekiti), Onaga Kingsley (Enugu) and Magaji Umar (Jigawa).

Also nominated in the category of Career Ambassadors are Mohammed Dahiru (Kaduna), AbdulSalam Zayat (Kano), Shehu Barde (Katsina), Aminu Nasiu (Katsina), Abubakar Musa-Musa (Kebbi), Mohammed Idris (Kebbi), Bako Adamu Umar (Kogi).

The rest are in the category are Sulu Gambari (Kwara), Ramata Mohammed (Lagos), Shaga John Shama (Nasarawa), Salau Mohammed (Niger) and  Ibrahim Danlami (Niger).

Others are: Adeola Mopelola (Ogun), Ruben Samuel (Ondo), Akand Adekola (Osun),  Adedokun Esther (Oyo), Gedagi Joseph (Plateau), Luther Ayokalata (Rivers), Danladi Yaku (Taraba) and Bello  Dogondaji (Zamfara).

Names on the list of the 31 non-career ambassadorial nominees are Sen. Grace Bent (Adamawa), Sen. Ita Enang (Akwa – Ibom), Nkechi Okocha (Anambra), Mahmood Yakubu (Bauchi), Philip Ikurusi (Bayelsa).

Paul Oga Adikwu (Benue), retired Vice Adm. Ibok Ibas (Cross River), Abasi Braimah (Edo) and Erelu Adebayo (Ekiti) are also on the list.

Others are Olumilua Ayotunwa (Ekiti), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu State), Mrs. Chioma Ohakim (Imo), Rtd. Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Kano State), Tasiu Maigari (Katsina), Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu (Kogi) and Olufemi Pedro (Lagos).

Included are: “Mohammed Aliyu (Nasarawa State), Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo), Joseph Iji (Ondo), Fani-Kayode (Osun), Prof. O. Adewole (Osun), Florence Ajimobi (Oyo), Lola Akande (Oyo), Prof. Nora Daduut (Plateau), Yakubu Gambo (Plateau).

“Chukwujinka Okocha (Rivers), Haruna Abubakar (Sokoto), Jerry Samuel Manwe (Taraba) and Adamu Nangree (Yobe).”

Source: NAN

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Akpoti-Uduaghan made the vow while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday after being refused entrance into the National Assembly Complex by security personnel.

The suspended senator had on Tuesday defied a heavy security blockade and arrived at the National Assembly complex on foot from the MOPOL gate, accompanied by a crowd of supporters.

The lawmaker, whose suspension by the Senate is being contested in court, parked her vehicle outside the National Assembly premises and walked through the main MOPOL gate, in company with some activists, including Aisha Yesufu.

Speaking with newsmen, Akpoti-Uduaghan, who defied the rain, insisted that her suspension was not only unjust but also procedurally flawed.

“Even the suspension, ab initio, was fraudulent. The document that recommended my suspension wasn’t even attested to by the committee members. It was just a photocopy of an attendance sheet passed off as their signatures.

“There is no reason whatsoever, contrary to the publications that I read yesterday (Monday), that I should not resume today because the senate has appealed my suspension judgment.

“That’s wrong. What I appealed is the contempt and that is separate. The judgment came in two parts.

“One was to address the contempt which is based on the satirical apology letter which I made on Facebook which the judge thought it wise in her own stride that amounts to contempt.

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“But I’m saying clearly that that doesn’t amount to contempt of court because before Justice Binta Nyako was not the matter of sexual harassment; it was the matter of suspension,” she said.

The senator said that if she decided to go back home, that did not mean that she was not unaware of the fact that the National Assembly would go into a two-month recess, beginning from Wednesday.

“If we decide to turn our backs and go home, we are not ignorant of the fact that the National Assembly is most likely going to go into recess tomorrow (Wednesday) for two months.

“And they will resume pretty much in the last week of September and, like you rightly said, that means I would have pretty much served the six months suspension.

“I’m saying that because as of now, I’m no longer suspended. And there’s something very important I would like to say, that even the suspension, ab initio, was fraudulent,” she said.

Source: NAN

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