US Edition'It Lacks Federal Character' - Ndume Urges Tinubu to Withdraw Ambassadorial List
Senator Ali Ndume urges President Tinubu to withdraw ambassadorial nominees citing unfair state and zone allocations, including a deceased nominee, risking ethnic tensions, Ndume warned.
- On Saturday, Senator Ali Ndume urged President Bola Tinubu to withdraw the ambassadorial nominees ahead of next week's Senate screening in a public statement challenging the list's composition.
- Citing the Federal Character Principle, Ndume warned the list is `lopsided` and fails to reflect Nigeria's diversity under Section 14 of the 1999 Constitution.
- Further checks show the North-East has seven nominees, some states have three or four slots, while Gombe has none, and Yobe's nominee, Senator Adamu Garba Talba, died in July.
- Ndume warned the list's approval could deepen ethnic suspicion and undermine national unity, cautioning the administration against decisions that might fuel ethnic tension at this critical time.
- On Thursday, the Senate received the ambassadorial nomination lists and referred them to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening, initiating parliamentary scrutiny.
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Ndume criticises Tinubu’s govt again, faults new ambassadorial list
Mr Ndume, who demanded the withdrawal of the list said the distribution of nominees across states and geopolitical zones is uneven, with some states receiving multiple slots while others, like Gombe State, received none.
'It lacks federal character' - Ndume urges Tinubu to withdraw ambassadorial list
Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s ambassadorial nominees, insisting the list breaches the federal character principle and should be withdrawn ahead of next week’s Senate screening. In a statement on Saturday, the former Senate Leader stated that the allocation of nominees across states and geopolitical zones falls short of the constitutional requirement for fair representation in the composition of the Federa…
Ndume Asks Tinubu To Withdraw Ambassadorial List, Cites Breach Of Federal Character
Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withdraw the ambassadorial nomination list currently before the Senate, alleging that its composition violates the Federal Character principle prescribed by the 1999 Constitution. The Senate had on Thursday received the lists of career and non-career ambassadorial nominees from President Tinubu, which was referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening. H…
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Ahead of the Senate screening and confirmation of the ambassadorial nominees sent to the Red Chamber by President Bola Tinubu, a former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has appealed to the President to withdraw the list from the parliament. The lawmaker declared that the composition of the nominees was in clear breach of the Federal Character … The post Ambassadorial nominees: Ndume asks Tinubu to withdraw list appeared first on NewsTmes.com.ng.
Ndume Urges Tinubu to Withdraw Ambassadorial Nominees Over Federal Character Breach
Ahead of Senate screening of ambassadorial nominees submitted by the Presidency, Senator Ali Ndume has called on President Bola Tinubu to withdraw the list, citing violations of the federal character principle enshrined in the Constitution. Ndume, who represents Borno South and is a former Senate Leader, argued in a statement on Saturday that the nominations contravened Section 14(3) of the Nigerian Constitution, which requires government appoin…
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