*Ademola Oshodi, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Protocol, discloses President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, will announce the fresh Ambassadors to foreign countries within the next few weeks, affirming 鈥榠t is something that the President and his administration are focused on鈥�

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, will announce his ambassadors within the next few weeks.

绿帽献妻 reports Ademola Oshodi, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Protocol, stated this Sunday, December 29, 2024, while featuring on Channels TV programme monitored in Lagos.

Oshodi stated: 鈥淚 believe in the next few weeks, there will be a pronouncement for the ambassadors, and steps will be taken by the Senate and accreditation to put them in place in their various missions around the world.鈥�

However, during the programme Sunday, Nigeria鈥檚 former Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lawrence Obisakin; and former Nigeria鈥檚 High Commissioner in Australia, Ayoola Olukanni, faulted Tinubu鈥檚 non-appointment of new Nigerian Ambassadors and High Commissioners 16 months after he recalled all career and political ambassadors representing the West African country overseas.

It is also recalled that on September 2, 2023, barely a few months after President Tinubu was inaugurated the new Nigerian President, he recalled all Nigerian Ambassadors administering over 100 Nigerian Embassies and High Commissions from their host countries.

Subsequently, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs, reportedly stated that Ambassadors serve at the behest of the President in their host countries, and it was President鈥檚 鈥減rerogative to send or recall them from any country.鈥�

On why the Nigerian leader has yet to send a list of fresh Ambassadors to the Senate, in the National Assembly (NASS), in Abuja, FCT, for approval and onward deployment to missions abroad despite that Nigeria has been playing host to the Ambassadors of other countries with missions in Abuja, Oshodi said Tinubu had been busy putting things in place for the envoys to be appointed and sent to foreign lands.

鈥淭he ambassadors are coming but the most important thing we should realise is that things are being put in place for the ambassadors and the high commissioners.

鈥淲e have charg茅 d鈥檃ffaires to the nations, and consul generals that have been sent, more of a prelude to the ambassadors鈥� arrival,鈥� stated the Presidential aide.

He further averred: 鈥淭he foreign missions are not in dire straits. The president inherited missions that were not in great shape.

鈥淪o, things have to be put in shape and prepared for the ambassadors, and their families, dignitaries, diplomats, etc.鈥�

Oshodi, however, assured Nigerians, that 鈥渋t is something that the President and his administration are focused on.

鈥淎s much as the ambassadors are key, I want to clearly state that even the last administration, without giving excuses, took 20 months for them to put Ambassadors in place.鈥�