Reports reaching Naijadefender suggest that President Muhammadu Buhari, will sanction his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, over appointment scandal.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had on Monday, June 20, petitioned Buhari and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, over the 47-man list, drawn up by a Committee, led by a former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe.

The list was recently submitted to the Senate by Kyari.

The petitioners, who accuse Kingibe and Kyari of indifference to due process, marked by disregard for the Federal Character Principle and Seniority, are calling on the Senate to withhold its confirmation of the names on the list.

The petitioners identified lopsidedness in the selection exercise, pointing out that States like Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Plateau, Ondo and Sokoto, were completely ignored, while others got more than are due to them.

Borno State, for instance, has three nominees, while Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano and Katsina, have two each.

Another aberration identified by the petitioners, was the selection of 10 out of 47 nominees from National Intelligence Agency, NIA.

This, they argued, is against the Rules establishing the NIA as a separate entity from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

The petitioners contended clearly that, the Vienna Convention stipulates the character and nature of people eligible for appointment as principal representatives abroad and heads of diplomatic missions.

Also, they accused the ambassadorial nomination of wanton disregard of seniority in the foreign/diplomatic service. They alleged that nominees from Adamawa, Benue, Borno, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi and Lagos States, were junior officers, who have been elevated above more qualified and experienced colleagues.

This in itself, is at variance with the guidelines for ambassadorial nominations and existing practice in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Investigation, shows that the aggrieved officers had attempted to draw the attention of the appointment committee to the anomalies, before their decision to write a petition.

A delegation led by Ambassador Bulus Lolo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with Kyari, in the hope of drawing his attention to the flaws in the process and getting him to correct them.

SaharaReporters, learnt that the petitioners requested that due process is followed, to prevent a dampening of morale, and avoid disharmony at the ministry’s headquarters and in more than 100 embassies and consulates abroad.

However, Kyari, rejected their suggestions and went ahead to submit the list drawn up by the Kingibe-led committee to the Senate President, without clearing with Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who was the acting President at the time.

One of the disaffected directors said, that the meeting with Kyari was a wasteful exercise, as the Chief of Staff to the President was an interested party.

“We shouldn’t have wasted our time going to his office for a meeting. Do you know that the only reason Borno State got three nominees, the highest number, was because both Kyari and Kingibe are from that state? Is this not nepotism?

“This is corruption by other means, and I think President Buhari is wasting his time fighting corruption outside of the Presidential Villa, when corruption is being perpetrated right under his very nose. We call on our distinguished Senators to ensure that justice is not only done, but also be seen to be done.

“Tuhey should reject the submitted list and call for fresh nominations in line with Federal Character Principles and based on the seniority of all qualified officers according to existing regulations,” the director said.

Sources also disclosed, that Borno State may end up with four ambassadors at the end of the process, as Kingibe has positioned as the political nominee from the State.

“Being former Foreign Affairs Minister himself, he is scheming to be appointed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations, just as late General Joe Garba, Professors Ibrahim Gambari, and Joy Ugwu were appointed,” he added.


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This is a (despotic) regime of nepotism as confirmed by the president himself during an interview last year where he openly admitted to rewarding only those who had been with him from day one with appointments not minding if the country's ox is gored (i.e. füçk the country's progress and feelings, who round peg in round hole don epp ?)
So I'm not surprised by the shenanigans of Baba's foot soldiers

Never in the history of this nation have we had a more tribal bigotted govt than this present one.

RZArecta:
This is a (despotic) regime of nepotism as confirmed by the president himself during an interview last year where he openly admitted to rewarding only those who had been with him from day one with appointments not minding if the country's ox is gored (i.e. füçk the country's progress and feelings, who round peg in round hole don epp ?)
So I'm not surprised by the shenanigans of Baba's foot soldiers

Are u not tired of telling this lies??

RZArecta:
This is a (despotic) regime of nepotism as confirmed by the president himself during an interview last year where he openly admitted to rewarding only those who had been with him from day one with appointments not minding if the country's ox is gored (i.e. füçk the country's progress and feelings, who round peg in round hole don epp ?)
So I'm not surprised by the shenanigans of Baba's foot soldiers

You keep spreading the same lies everywhere yet the so called delusional interview is yet to be seen...continue...

Corrupt people in Aso Rock fighting corruption outside Aso Rock.

It will surely take a long time for Nigeria to be rid of corruption.

I hope this is done, I expected this story to be on Nairalands front page.

How will senior directors be skipped and their subordinates appointed as ambassadors. It's never done.

It's the height of nepotism and we Nigerians should not accept it.
What's rubbush... I am sure Buhari himself is oblivious to this that's why leaders needs to pick his advisers and associates very carefully.

stealing is not corruption nepotism,forgery, perjury etc are corruption

God will help us