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Nigeria: Replace Ali With Indigene, Assembly Urges FG
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This Day (Lagos)
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
Lagos
Kogi State House of Assembly has urged President Umaru Yar'Adua, to fill the ambassadorial slot rejected by former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Ahmadu Ali, with an indigene.
The call was contained in a resolution on Wednesday in Lokoja, following the adoption of a motion by the Majority Leader, Adamu Muhammad.
Muhammad said the motion was informed by insinuation that the slot would be filled by a career diplomat from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Adamu said it would amount to "injustice to the people of the state," should the slot be ceded to a non-indigene of the state. Speaker, Clarence Olafemi in his contribution, amended the motion with a clause giving the state government a 48-hour ultimatum to make a representation to the president on the need for the state to retain the slot.
He said, "the resolution of the Assembly in totality, should be sent to Yar'Adua within 48 hours." Speaking later in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Olafemi explained that Ali opted out after his nomination and screening by the Senate.
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"We cannot blame him for rejecting the offer, it is personal to him, but what I am saying is that Kogi State is full of intellectuals and competent people who could assume the position.
"Kogi is one of the most committed PDP states in the country and cannot afford to be denied its rights," Olafemi said. Minority Leader, Ndakwo Tanko, also told NAN that the Assembly opposed the moves to deny the state of the slot. "Picking a career diplomat from the ministry, is not ideal, as it amounts to denying the state its slot.
"We are not saying it should be given to a particular ethnic group, but to a capable indigene of the state," he said.
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