Afam Osigwe, the president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), is unhappy with how the Senate chose ambassadorial candidates.  ,
Osigwe criticizes the lawmakers’ “bow and go” approach when evaluating the recently-nominated envoys in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.  ,
“The Senate’s process was very subpar,” the senator said. when the majority of them were compelled to bow down. And when we don’t know much about it, and those we know, and we thought there ought to be some discussion about their views, their position on a wide range of issues, including national unity, the NBA president said.
They were not asked those questions, and some senators got into a fight at some point. I guess what I’m going to expect from the ambassadorial appointees because it’s just political favoritism.
Read more about Tinubu’s nominations for Omokri, Fani-Kayode, Ugwuanyi, Mahmood Yakubu, and 28 others as ambassadors.
In late November, Tinubu put about 32 people on Tinubu’s list of potential career and non-career ambassadors.
President Tinubu emailed the Senate on Saturday, asking it to consider and confirm quickly 15 nominees for career ambassadors and 17 candidates for non-career ambassadors, according to presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga, in a statement released on Saturday.
Some of the nominees were screened by the lawmakers a few weeks later, but Osigwe claimed they failed to do so, which he claims does not bode well for the nation.
Read more about Tinubu receiving letters of cred from 17 ambassadors and four high commissioners.
He claimed that the appointment of non-career ambassadors in Nigeria has become a joke.
Osigwe criticized the nation’s leaders for appointing the appropriate ambassadors.
Source: Channels TV
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