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.
Source:
DailyPost
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