PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate deployment of four out of the newly appointed Ambassadors-Designate.
They are Professor Tijjani Bande, (Kebbi State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Headquarters in New York and Itegboje Sunday Samson (Edo State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The others are Kadiri Ayinla Audu, (Kwara State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and Bankole A. Adeoye, (Ogun State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Embassy of Nigeria/Permanent Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday, was silent on the fate of the remaining ambassadors-designate recently cleared by the Senate.