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Senate confirms Oke, Are, Dalhatu for Ambassadorial appointments
The Senate has completed the screening of the three ambassadorial nominees sent by President Bola Tinubu for confirmation.
Those screened are Kayode Are from Ogun State, Aminu Dalhatu from Jigawa State, and Ayodele Oke from Oyo State.
The nominees appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by Senator Sani Bello of Niger North, where the panel questioned and assessed them.
The committee’s report will be submitted to the full Senate for consideration and possible confirmation soon.
Speaking during the session, Senator Bello disclosed that Ayodele Oke had addressed and cleared all allegations previously raised against him.
President Tinubu, in a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary last week, requested the confirmation of the three nominees.
Oke, an alumnus of Emory University in Atlanta, is a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations in London.
Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to South Korea under the Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Are was the director general of the State Security Service (SSS) from 1999 to 2007, served as National Security Adviser in 2010, and was an officer in the Directorate of Military Intelligence.
He also graduated with First Class honours in Psychology from the University of Ibadan in 1980.
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