Tinubu writes Senate, seeks confirmation of Aminu Dalhatu, two others as ambassadorial nominees
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, seeking the screening and subsequent confirmation of three non-career ambassadorial nominees.
The letter was read during plenary by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
The ambassadorial nominees are Kayode Are from Ogun State, Aminu Dalhatu from Jigawa State and Ayodele Oke from Oyo State.
According to the letter, Ambassador Ayodele Oke is for the United States, Retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are for the United Kingdom, and Ambassador Aminu Mohammed Dalhatu for France.
Ambassador Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to South Korea during the late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He was first appointed in 2016.
Ambassador 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.
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.
The President said that the nominations were made in accordance with section 171 (1), (2)(c) and (4) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
Tinubu urged the Senate to “consider and confirm the appointments of the nominees expeditiously”, while extending his “assurances of highest consideration” to the lawmakers.
Akpabio thereafter referred the nominees to the Senator Sani Bello-led Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs to review the nominations and report back to the chamber within one week.
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