President Buhari writes Senate to confirm 8 appointments

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, September 29, made a crucial replacement of two non-career ambassadors-designate previously appointed by him.

This was contained in a letter directed to the Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, which he read during the first plenary after the lawmakers' two-month recess.

The replaced nominees are Peter Gana from Niger and Yusuf Mohammed from Yobe state. The president replaced them with Muhammed Manta and Yusufu Yunusa from Niger and Yobe states respectively, Premium Times reports.

Meanwhile, President Buhari also sought the confirmation of eight appointments in the role of chairman, executive vice-chairman, chief executive, executive commissioners.

Others are non-executive commissioners of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Those appointed are Emeka Nwankpa (chairman), Babatunde lrukera (executive vice-chairman/CEO), Yinka Osoba Apata (executive commissioner) and Adamu Ahmed Abdullahi (executive commissioner).

Others are Wakili Abdullahi Ahmed (non-executive commissioner), Ayang Francis Eyam (non-Executive commissioner), Ben Nwoye (non-executive commissioner) and Theophilus Oyebiyi (non-executive commissioner).