Tinubu Nominates Three Individuals For Ambassador, Sends Names To Senate

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forwarded a list of three individuals nominated for ambassadorial positions to the Senate.

Naija News reports that Tinubu is seeking the Senate to screen and confirm the trio.

This was made known by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary on Wednesday.

The nominees are Kayode Are from Ogun State, Aminu Dalhatu from Jigawa and Ayodele Oke from Oyo State.

“The list contains three names for now, I am sure others will follow,” Akpabio said after reading the letter from President Bola Tinubu.

In a post on his X account on Wednesday, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the president nominated non-career ambassadors for three countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

Naija News reports that the postings will be finalised following Senate screening.

Ambassador Amin Mohammed Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to South Korea during President Buhari’s administration, having been first appointed in 2016.

Ambassador Ayodele Oke, an alumnus of Emory University in Atlanta, is a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations in London.

Retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are was Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) from 1999 to 2007, served as National Security Adviser in 2010, and was an officer in the Directorate of Military Intelligence. He graduated with First Class Honours in Psychology from the University of Ibadan in 1980.