Buhari re-submits name of 82-year-old ambassadorial nominee to Senate
- Admin
- Apr 27, 2017
- 1 min read
Seven weeks after the Senate rejected the nomination of 82-year-old non-career ambassadorial nominee from Imo State, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor (retd), President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, re-submitted his name for screening and confirmation.
Justice Nsofor, born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State was earlier presented to the Senate alongside 46 others but the Senate rejected him.
Nsofor had on March 1 appeared before the Senate.
During questioning, Nsofor refused to recite the National Anthem.
“Why should I do so”, he had queried the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
His refusal shocked members of the committee.
The lawmaker representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Gbenga Ashafa (APC Lagos East), had asked Nsofor to recite the national anthem.
Nsofor was a Judge of the High Court of Nigeria, Justice of the Court of Appeal, and Lecturer in Law at the Holborn College of Law in London.
Buhari, however, submitted names of two other ambassadorial nominees – Joseph Olusola Iji, representing Ondo State, and Commodore Yusuf Jonga Hinna for Gombe State,
Senate had rejected the previous nominee from Ondo State, Jacob Igbekele Daodu, based on the report of the Department of State Service, DSS, which indicted him for corruption.
Buhari, also yesterday, forwarded to the Senate five nominees for confirmation as Non-Executive Directors of the Board of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
The nominees, who are to represent five of the six geo-political zones of the country, include Professor Umar Ahmed Jalingo, North-East; Professor Justitia Odinakachukwu Nnabuko, South-East; Professor Mike I. Obadan, South-South; Dr. Abdul Abubakar, North-West; and Adeola Adetunji, South-West.
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