PRESIDENT BUHARI FORWARDS LIST OF PROSPECTIVE AMBASSADORIAL CANDIDATES

President Muhammadu Buhari sent a list containing names of 47 prospective candidates for ambassadorship to the senate for approval on Thursday, 9^th of June, 2016. According to reports, the list includes the names of the prospective candidates and their state of origin:

1) Obinna Chukwuemeka (Abia State)

2) Salisu Umoru (Adamawa State)

3) Iyan Iyang-Udo (Akwa Ibom State)

4) Okeke Vivian (Anambra State)

5) Liman Munir (Bauchi State)

6) Ndem Jane (Benue)

7) Mohammed Hassan (Borno State)

8) Martin Cobham (Cross River State)

9) Janet Omoleegho (Delta State)

10) Itegboje Sunday (Edo State)

11) Olatunde Adesesan (Ekiti State)

12) Lilian Onoh (Enugu State)

13) Manaja Isah (Gombe State)

14) Ngozi Ukaeje (Imo state)

15) Bello Husseini (Jigawa State)

16) Enoch Duchi (Kaduna State)

17) Garba Baba (Kano State)

18) Usman Aliyu (Katsina State)

19) Umar Salisu (Kebbi State)

20) Momoh Omeiza (Kogi State)

21) Kadiri Audu (Kwara State)

22) Balogun Hakeem (Lagos State)

23) Inusa Ahmed (Nasarawa State)

24) Ibrahim Isa (Niger State)

25) Bankole Adeoye (Ogun State)

26) Ibidapo Obe (Osun State)

27) Ogundaro Sakirat (Oyo State)

28) Eric Bell-Gam (Rivers State)

29) Attahiru Halliru (Sokoto State)

30) Rahmatu A. Dunama (Taraba State)

31) Musa Mamman (Yobe State)

32) Kabiru Bala (Zamfara State)

33) Adamu Shuaibu (FCT)

34) Demenongu Agiv (Benue State)

35) Toko Gongulong (Borno State)

36) Ibrahim Hamza (Katsina State)

37) Kenneth Nwachukwu (Imo State)

38) Queen Worlu (Edo State)

39) Emmanuel Oguntuwase (Ekiti State)

40) Audu Paragalda (Adamawa State)

41) Lawan Gashagar (Borno State)

42) Olufemi Abikoye (Kwara State)

43) Abubakar Ibrahim (Gombe State)

44) Rabiu Akawu (Kano State)

45) Nonye Udo (Anambra)

46) Janet Bisong (Cross River State)

47) Adekunbi Abibat (Ogun State)

 

            Of the 36 states in Nigeria, only 33 were represented as there were no candidates from Bayelsa State, Ebonyi State and Ondo State.