Nigeria: Senate Returns List of Non-Career Ambassadorial Nominees, Clears Career Diplomats

16 November 2016

Abuja — In line with the outcome of Monday's meeting between Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, five governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, the Senate yesterday cleared the 47 career ambassadorial nominees whose names were sent for confirmation last June, but returned the recent list of non-career diplomats to the presidency, citing a plethora of petitions against some of them.

THISDAY had exclusively reported yesterday that at the Monday meeting held in the State House, Abuja, it was agreed that the Senate would separate the names of career diplomats whose names had been sent to the Senate for screening and confirmation, while the list of non-career ambassadorial nominees would be withdrawn for review by the state governors.

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