Presidency sends Ministerial and Ambassadorial list to Senate
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Sep 26, 2007, 15:19

President Umaru Musa Yar’adua has submitted a list of Ministerial and Ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.

The President in the covering letter to the Senate on September 25 said the appointment of the nominees was in accordance with section 171(c) sub-section 4 of the 1999 constitution and expressed the hope that the Senate would approve their appointment expeditiously.

The three candidates nominated for confirmation as ministers are,

1. Mr. Orubebe Peter Godsday (South-South geo-political zone)
2. Seriki Ademola Razak (Lagos State)
3. Odom Chuka Julius, (representing the Progressive Peoples Alliance)

The ambassadorial nominees consisting of political nominees and career officers are,

Political Appointees
1. Prof. Joy Ogwu
2. Gen. Timothy Shelpidi
3. Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro
4. Senator Ahmadu Ali
5. Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa,
6. Dalhatu Tafida,
7. Dr. Kema Chikwe
8. Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
9. Chief Empire Kanu (Abia),
10. Chief (Dr.) Etim Uye (Akwa Ibom),
11. Hon. Jerry Ugokwe (Anambra),
12. Dr, Aisha Laraba Abdulahi (Bauchi),
13. Senator Felix Oboro (Bayelsa),
14. Prof. Iyorwuese Hargher (Benue),
15. Barrister Obed Wadzani (Borno),
16. Chief Soni Abang (Cross River)
17. Chief Godson Echegile (Delta)
18. Chief Polycarp Nwite (Ebonyi).
19. Toye Olofintuyi (Ekiti),
20. Mr. Godwin Nsude Agbo (Enugu),
21. Alhaji Ahmed Abdullamid Malam (Jigawa),
22. Alhaji Abdulahi Garba Aminch (Katsina),
23. Alhaji Isah Aliyu Muhammed (Kebbi),
24. Brig.-Gen. Yusuf Abubakar (rtd) (Kogi),
25. Dr. (Mrs.) Nimota Niniola Akanbi (Kwara),
26. Senator Umaru Azores Suleiman (Nasarawa)
27. Dr. Ishaya Majanbu (Niger)
28. Chief (Mrs.) Folake Marcus Bello (Ogun)
29. Prof. Olu Agbi (Ondo),
30. Senator Segun Bamigbetan Baju (Osun)
31. Amb. Peter Layi Oyedele (Oyo),
32. Ibrahim Pada Kasai (Plateau),
33. Hon. Desmond Akawor (Rivers),
34. Senator Abdulahi Muhammed Wali (Sokoto),
35. Hon. Musa John (Taraba),
36. Ibrahim Buba Mai Sule (Yobe),
37. Alhaji Bashir Yuguda (Zamfara),
38. Esther John Audu (FCT),
39. Brig.-Gen. Oluwole Rotimi (rtd) (Ogun),
40. Alhaji Abubakar Cika (Sokoto)
41. Hon. Fidel Ayogu (Enugu).

The career officers are,
1. Mr. C. W. Winge (Abia),
2. Miss. Asalina R. Mamuno (Adamawa),
3. Mr. B. U. Eyo (Akwa Ibom),
4. Dr. G. Bolodei Igali (Bayelsa),
5. Mr. G. O. Adamah (Benue),
6. Mr. M. B. Egbe (Cross River),
7. Mr. A. B. Gwari (Yobe),
8. Mr. S. M. Pissagih (Gombe),
9. Mr. S. L. Mohammed (Jigawa)
10. Mr. T. Y. Zaria (Kaduna)
11. Mr. R. B. Onemola (Kogi),
12. Mr. A. A. Omaki (Nasarawa),
13. Mr. E. A. Adigun (Ondo),
14. Mr. G. H. Bristol (Rivers),
15. Mr. J. Y. Hassan (Taraba),
16. Mr. A. G. Bala (Zamfara),
17. Mr. M. A. Mba (Ebonyi),
18. Mr. C. L. Laseinde, (Osun),
19. Mr. P. A. Dauda (Kaduna),
20. Mr. B. G. Wakil, (Borno).

In his response, the Senate President Senator David Mark said that the upper chamber would be fair to all nominees just like it did with the first set of ministerial nominees it screened recently and warned against acts of favoritism and corruption.

According to him, the screening of the ambassadorial nominees by the Foreign Affairs Committee headed by Senator Jubril Aminu,

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