By: Felix Ikpotor
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated a former chairman of Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Oji Ngofa as an ambassador.
Ngofah is among the 46 names submitted to the Senate for screening and confirmation by the President.
He was before his nomination, the national organizing secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Among the nominees are Pauline Tallen, Olorunibe Mamora and Musa Ibeto who was formerly nominated minister before his nomination was withdrawn in 2015.
Mr. Mamora, a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, was also a member of the Senate. He is an ally of ex-Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu.
Ms. Tallen is a former Plateau State deputy governor while Mr. Ibeto is a former Niger State deputy governor.
Bellow is the full list of the nominees:
- Nurudeen Mohammed (Kwara)
- Jamila Ahmadu-Suka (Sokoto)
- Suleiman Hassan (Gombe)
- Yusuf Tugar (Bauchi)
- Usman Bugaje (Katsina)
- Uzoma Emenike (Abia)
- Clifford Zirra (Adamawa)
- Godwin Umo (Akwa Ibom)
- Christopher Okeke (Anambra)
- Baba Madugu (Bauchi)
- Stanley Diriyai (Bayelsa)
- Enyantu Ifenne (Benue)
- Mohammed Hayatuddeen (Borno)
- Etuborn Asuquo (Cross River)
- Francis Efeduma (Delta)
- Jonah Odo (Ebonyi)
- Uyagwe. Igbe (Edo)
- Ayodele Ayodeji (Ekiti)
- Chris Eze (Enugu)
- Muhammad Dalhatu (Jigawa)
- Mohammad Yaro (Kaduna)
- Deborah Iliya (Kaduna)
- D Abdulkadir (Kano)
- Haruna Ungogo (Kano)
- Isa Dodo (Katsina)
- Tijani Bande (Kebbi)
- Y O Aliu (Kogi)
- Mohammed Yisa (Kwara)
- Modupe Irele (Lagos)
- Musa Mohammad (Nasarawa)
- Ade Asekun (Ogun)
- Sola Iki (Ondo)
- Adegboyega Ogunwusi (Osun).
- Ashimiyu Olaniyi (Oyo)
- Haruna Bawa Abdullahi (Plateau)
- Orji Ngofa (Rivers)
- Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor (Rivers)
- Kabiru Umar (Sokoto)
- Mustapha Jaji (Taraba)
- Zanna Bura (Yobe)
- Garba Gajam (Zamfara)
- Abdullahi Garbasi (Zamfara)
- Pauline Tallen (Plateau)
- Olorunibe Mamora (Lagos)
- Musa Ibeto (Niger)
- George Oguntade (Lagos)
