Abayomi Arabambi, the Labour Party’s (LP) factional National Publicity Secretary, has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of Reno Omokri, a former presidential spokesperson, as ambassador.
All other ambassadorial applicants, according to Arabambi, were worthy of their posts, but Omokri shouldn’t have been chosen due to his history of vocal opposition of the president.
In an interview with Arise News, Arabambi admitted that President Tinubu has the authority and right to propose people for ambassadorial positions under the Nigerian Constitution.
He did, however, emphasize that the nominations must be confirmed by the Senate before they became official.
“Now that the president has the authority to nominate his ambassadors, they would go before the Senate and their resumes would be presented to the Senate for approval,” stated Arabambi.
“I think the Senate, led by Akpabio, would undoubtedly do justice.” Recall that several of them were nominated to be ministers, and some of them were rejected.
“You are not the court, so regardless of the political hirakiri being produced by forces denouncing some of the ambassadorial nominees, someone was saying that they should be imprisoned.”
Since they would often urge them to stand on the stage and present their résumé to Nigerians, I believe they should let the Senate do its appropriate function and we should all watch it.
“I think everyone was nominated, with the exception of Reno, whom I felt the president shouldn’t have taken into consideration.
Reno Omokri is qualified, but his past criticism of the president may work against him.
