BREAKING: Tinubu adds Ohakim, Ibas, others to ambassadorial list

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forwarded a fresh list of 65 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.

The request was announced on Thursday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary.

The new list comprises 34 career ambassadors and high commissioners, as well as 31 non-career nominees, bringing the total to 65. Among the notable career nominees are Sulu-Gambari Olatunde Ahmed from Kwara State and Segun Ige from Edo State. Prominent non-career nominees include Senator Folasade Grace Bent from Adamawa, Senator Solomon Ita Enang from Akwa Ibom, and Senator Jimoh Ibrahim from Ondo State.

Tinubu also named Chioma Ohakim, former First Lady of Imo State, and Abdulrahman Dambazau, former Minister of Interior and ex-Chief of Army Staff, as non-career ambassadors. Their names were not included in the earlier batch released by the Presidency.

This new submission comes days after the President transmitted the first set of three ambassadorial nominees to the Senate. Those nominees—Kayode Are (Ogun), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa), and Ayodele Oke (Oyo)—have already been screened by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

With the latest batch, the Senate has now referred all 65 nominees to the same Foreign Affairs Committee, which has been mandated to complete the screening exercise within one week.

More details to follow.