Elijah Onyeagba, 40 others make Buhari’s list of non-career ambassadors

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sent names of forty- one non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and subsequent confirmation.

The list, selected from 32 states of Nigeria is accordance “with section 171 (1) (2)(c) and sub-section 4 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, I have the honour to forward for continuation by the senate the underlisted 41 names of nominees as non-career ambassadors-designate,” President Buhari wrote in his letter to the Senate President Ahmed Lawan.
The names read on the floor of Senate plenary Wednesday by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan include the Editor- in- Chief of Guardian Newspapers, Debo Adesina representing Oyo State: Sunday Awoniyi for Kogi State; Ademola Sarki, representing Lagos State and former Politics Editor, Thisday, Oma Djebah, representing Delta State.

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NOMINEES STATE

Umar Sulieman Adamawa

L.S. Mandama Adamawa

Oboro Akpabio Akwa Ibom

Elejah Onyeagba Anambra

Abubakar Siyi Bauchi

Philip Ikurusi Bayelsa

Tarzoor Terhemen Benue

Paul Adikwu Benue

Al-Bishir Al-Hussain Borno

Bwala Bukar Borno

Monique Ekpong Cross River

Oma Djebah Delta

Ominyi Eze Ebonyi

Yamah Musa Edo

C.O. Ugwu Enugu

Hajara Salim Gombe

Obiezu Chinyerem Imo

Ali Magashi Jigawa

M.A. Markarfi Kaduna

Hamisu Takalmawa Kano

Jazuli Gadalanci Kano

Amina Kurawa Kano

Yahaya Lawal Katsina

Dare Sunday Awoniyi Kogi

Ibrahim Laaro Kwara

Abioye Bello Kwara

Zara Umar Kwara

Ademola Seriki Lagos

Henry Omaku Nasarawa

Sarafa Isola Ogun

Nimi Akinkube Ondo

Adejaba Bello Osun

Adeshina Alege Oyo

Debo Adesina Oyo

Folakemi Akinyele Oyo

Shehu Yibaikwal Plateau

Maureen Tamuno Rivers

Faruk Yabo Sokoto

Adamu Hassan Taraba

Yusuf Mohammed Yobe

Abubakar Moriki Zamfara