We’re Not Lobbying Senate To Confirm Ex-Service Chiefs As Ambassadors – FG

The Presidency is not lobbying the Upper Chamber to confirm specific immediate past Service Chiefs as ambassadors, Senator Babajide Omoworare has said.

FG recently revealed that the reports are false ahead of the confirmation of the appointments of the former Service Chiefs who will be facing the Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, All Progressives Congress, APC, Bauchi North led Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening.

According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters ( Senate), Senator Babajide, the Presidency is not losing sleep on the request at all.

He, however, added that lobbying in governance between the executive and the legislature and vice versa, is normal and practised in all democracies.

His words, “But if there is lobbying going on for themto pass through the Confirmation process ,I sincerely think it is in order, it is not an aberration, it’s not a transgression, it’s not a sin for lobbying to occur.”

“Having been service chiefs before should they be nominated as ambassadors especially because they Senate and House of representatives have not been on the same page with them, it is normal.”

”That does not mean they can not be successful ambassadors. It is for the senators to determine whether looking at their profiles, their curriculum Vitae and their credentials they can be good rearsentatives of Nigeria.”

“For them to even be service chiefs it means they have attained some heights because being service chief is being at the pinnacle of their careerwhich is an achievement.”