Buhari Drops Mamora, Oguntade From The New Ambassadorial List

Posted on January 12, 2017

MICHAEL AKINOLA

Lagos politician Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora and retired Supreme Court Justice, George Oguntade are two of the well-known figures missing in the new list of non-career ambassadorial nominees resubmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate on Thursday.

This was coming two months after the Senate rejected the first list submitted by President Buhari.

Also dropped on the new list is Prince Adegboyega Ogunwusi, an elder brother of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi.

It was gathered that some governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress had last year complained that the earlier nominees were drawn from their respective states without consultations with them.

After Senate President Bukola Saraki read the new nominees on Thursday, Senator Phillip Aduda (PDP FCT) thanked President Buhari for finally nominating an Abuja indigene this time.

Senator Aduda protested the non-inclusion of any FCT indigene when the earlier list was submitted to the Senate in October last year.

Here is full list of the new 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 Gida (Borno)

Utobong Asuquo (Cross River)