PRESIDENCY RESUBMITS' AMBASSADORIAL LIST TO SENATE

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a “revised” list of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the lawmakers, asking for the legislators’ approval.


Saraki read Buhari’s letter to members of the Senate during the plenary on Thursday.
The Senate had, on November 15, 2016, rejected the first version of the list after receiving over 250 petitions against the nominees.
Due to the controversy, the lawmakers had resolved that the first list be sent back to President Buhari “for resubmission and re-jigging.”
The Senate took the decision based on the recommendation of its Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Two of the nominees on the first list, former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mrs. Paulen Tallen; and former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Bugaje, whose nominations were rejected, were dropped from the second list.
Lagos, which had three slots in the first list, now has two, with the removal of Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora from the nominees.
A slot was also taken from Rivers State, leaving it with one nominee.
The Federal Capital Territory and Imo State, which had no representation in the first list, now have a nominee each on the second list.

List of Ambassadorial nominees
Uzoma Eminike, Abia;
Aminu Lawal (Adamawa);
Godwin Umoh (Akwa Ibom);
Christopher Okeke (Anambra);
Yusuf Maitama (Bauchi);
Baba Maigudu (Bauchi);
Stanley Douye (Bayelsa);
Stephen Uba (Benue);
Baba Ahmed Jidda (Borno);
Utobong Asuquo (Cross River);
Frank Ofegina (Delta);
Joda Udoh (Ebonyi);
Yagwe Ede (Edo);
Eniola Ajayi (Ekiti);
Chris Eze (Enugu);
Sulieman Hassan (Gombe);
Sylvanus Usofo (Imo);
Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa);
Ahmed Bamilli (Kaduna);
Deborah Yahaya (Kaduna);
D. Abdulkadir (Kano);
Haruna Arungungu (Kano);
Musa Udo (Katsina),
Mohammed Rimi (Katsina);
Tijani Bande (Kebbi);
Y. Aliu (Kogi);
Nurudeen Mohammed (Kwara),
Mohammed Isa (Kwara);
Adesola Omotade (Lagos);
Modupe Remi (Lagos);
Musa Mohammed (Nasarawa);
Ahmed Ibeto; Niger;
Susan Aderonke Folarin (Ogun);
Jacob Daudu (Ondo);
Afolayon Adeyemi (Osun);
A. Olaniyi (Oyo);
James Dmika (Plateau);
Haruna Abdullahi (Plateau);
Orji Ngofa (Rivers);
Sahibi Isa Gada (Sokoto);
Kabir Umar (Sokoto);
Jika Ado (Taraba);
Goni Zana (Yobe);
Garba T. (Zamfara);
Bala Mohammad (Zamfara)
Ibrahim Dada (FCT)