{"id":19392,"date":"2024-02-12T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:27:12","slug":"okotete-denies-security-threat-amid-ministerial-nomination-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/12\/okotete-denies-security-threat-amid-ministerial-nomination-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Okotete Denies Security Threat Amid Ministerial Nomination Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Okotete, the Executive Director (Business Development) of the Nigeria Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank, sheds light on her absence from President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s cabinet. Despite being recommended by President Tinubu for a ministerial role last year, her confirmation was withheld by the Senate due to unresolved &#8220;security clearance&#8221; issues.<\/p>\n<p>Okotete, hailing from Delta Central senatorial district, contends that the Senate&#8217;s refusal to clear her is rooted in &#8220;purely political games.&#8221; She attributes the opposition to envy and a fear that she might contend in the 2027 Delta State gubernatorial election, clarifying that she has no such intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Denying any ongoing investigation by security agencies, Okotete emphasizes her commitment to national security. She asserts that her continued role as a NEXIM Bank director demonstrates her non-threatening status to the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, Okotete was appointed as the national woman leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress\u2019 Caretaker\/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Okotete, the Executive Director (Business Development) of the Nigeria Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank, sheds light on her absence from President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s cabinet. Despite being recommended by President Tinubu for a ministerial role last year, her confirmation was withheld by the Senate due to unresolved &#8220;security clearance&#8221; issues. Okotete, hailing from Delta Central senatorial district, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19404,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions\/19404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}