President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked all ambassadors appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
11112015/07/12/buhari-sacks-bianca-ojukwu-maduekwe-other-ambassadors/”>Dailypost reports were recalled home Friday night by Buhari after three years of service abroad.
Topping
the list of the disengaged envoys are a former Foreign Affairs
Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe (Canada); Chairman of the Jonathan
Presidential Campaign Organisation in the 2011 election, Dr. Dalhatu
Tafida (UK); Professor Ade Adefuye (USA); widow of the late Ikemba
Nnewi, Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca (Spain); and former deputy
governor of Oyo State, Mr. Taofeek Arapaja (Jordan).
Others
include, a former aviation minister, Mrs. Fidelia Njeze (Switzerland);
ex-General Manager, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Ibadan, Mr.
Yemi Farounbi (Philippines); a one-time governorship aspirant in Lagos
State, Mr. Olatokunbo Kamson (Jamaica); a PDP front liner in Ondo State,
Mr. Cornelius Oluwateru (UAE); Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Bunu (Saudi
Arabia); a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General in Benue
State, Mr. Chive Kaave (Argentina); a former financial secretary of the
PDP, Alhaji Tukur Mani (Iran); and former permanent secretary, Federal
Capital Territory Administration, FCTA Biodun Nathaniel Olorunfemi
(Namibia).
Also
on the list are: Chief Asam Asam (SAN), (Russia); Mr. Okwudili Nwosu
(Burundi); Mr. Okeke Chukwuemeka (Vatican); Mr. Eric Aworahbi (Italy);
Dauda Danladi (Pakistan); and Mrs. Katherine Okon (Czeck Republic); Mr.
Nwofe Alexander; Princess Victoria Bosede Onipede (Republic of Congo);
Senator Haruna Garba (Kuwait); Mrs. Nonye Rajis-Okpara (Singapore);
Chief Eddy Onuoha (Hungary); Mr. Adamu Babangida Ibrahim (Syria); Dr.
Sam Jimba (Poland)
They were among the 93 envoys posted out in June 2012.
Nation
reports that the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had
communicated the President’s directive to the affected ambassadors.
They were told to hand over to the highest ranking officer in their various locations.
According
to a source: “the President has issued a directive to the Permanent
Secretary in Ministry of Foreign Affairs to recall all the political
appointees currently serving as ambassadors in all parts of the world.
It doesn’t matter whether they have just few months to the end of their
tenure”.
“I
am sure the envoy in Saudi Arabia is already on his way and quite many
others should be reporting to the ministry by Monday. I really don’t
have a comprehensive list of the number of people that are affected but
they were posted in different continents mostly in key European, Asian
and American countries,” the source said.