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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forwarded a second batch of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate, bringing the total number of candidates submitted within days to 35.
In two separate letters addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President requested the swift confirmation of 15 career diplomats and 17 non-career nominees.
The new lists include four women among the career candidates and six women among the non-career category.
The non-career nominees feature several prominent figures: Barrister Ogbonnaya Kalu from Abia State; former presidential aide Reno Omokri from Delta; immediate past INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu; former First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Angela Adebayo; and former Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
Others include former Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Tasiu Musa Maigari; ex-Plateau commissioner Yakubu N. Gambo; former UBEC deputy executive secretary; former Plateau senator Professor Nora Ladi Daduut; ex-Lagos deputy governor, Otunba Femi Pedro; former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode; and Anambra-born lawyer Barrister Nkechi Linda Ufochukwu.
Also on the list are former Oyo First Lady, Florence Ajimobi; former Lagos commissioner, Lola Akande; former Adamawa senator, Grace Bent; ex-Abia governor, Okezie Ikpeazu; Ondo businessman and serving senator, Jimoh Ibrahim; and Ambassador Paul Oga Adikwu, Nigeria’s former envoy to the Holy See.
For career ambassador and high commissioner positions, the nominees include Enebechi Monica Okwuchukwu (Abia), Yakubu Nyaku Danladi (Taraba), Miamuna Ibrahim Besto (Adamawa), Musa Musa Abubakar (Kebbi), Syndoph Paebi Endoni (Bayelsa), Chima Geoffrey Lioma David (Ebonyi), and Mopelola Adeola-Ibrahim (Ogun).
Others are Abimbola Samuel Reuben (Ondo), Yvonne Ehinosen Odumah (Edo), Hamza Mohammed Salau (Niger), Ambassador Shehu Barde (Katsina), Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno (Borno), Ambassador Muhammad Saidu Dahiru (Kaduna), Ambassador Olatunji Ahmed Sulu Gambari (Kwara), and Ambassador Wahab Adekola Akande (Osun).
The nominees are expected to be deployed to nations with significant diplomatic and economic ties to Nigeria—among them China, India, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, the UAE, Qatar, South Africa, and Kenya—as well as to multilateral posts at the United Nations, UNESCO, and the African Union.
Their specific postings will be revealed after Senate confirmation.
Last week, the President had submitted an initial trio of nominees: Ambassador Ayodele Oke (Oyo), Ambassador Amin Mohammed Dalhatu (Jigawa), and retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are (Ogun), who are being considered for missions in the United Kingdom, the United States, or France.
President Tinubu added that additional diplomatic nominations will be transmitted to the Senate in the coming days.
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