{"id":79679,"date":"2025-12-04T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79679"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:22:18","slug":"moghalu-faults-nominees-for-accepting-ambassadorial-roles-after-insulting-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/04\/moghalu-faults-nominees-for-accepting-ambassadorial-roles-after-insulting-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Moghalu Faults Nominees for Accepting Ambassadorial Roles After Insulting Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor, Kingsley Moghalu, has criticised some of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s ambassadorial nominees, accusing them of hypocrisy for accepting appointments after previously using abusive language against the president.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Thursday, Moghalu described the nominees\u2019 actions as \u201cstaggering,\u201d arguing that individuals who once issued extreme personal attacks on Tinubu should not now be eager to serve in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>He said political disagreement is normal, but switching positions for personal gain reflects poorly on character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least, if you feel that strongly not just about issues, but about a person, then stay on your lane,\u201d he wrote, adding that the behaviour of such nominees says more about them than about Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu recently forwarded 65 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes 34 career diplomats and 31 non-career nominees, among them Sulu-Gambari Olatunde Ahmed (Kwara), Segun Ige (Edo), and former senators Folasade Grace Bent (Adamawa), Solomon Ita Enang (Akwa Ibom), and Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor, Kingsley Moghalu, has criticised some of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s ambassadorial nominees, accusing them of hypocrisy for accepting appointments after previously using abusive language against the president. In a post on X on Thursday, Moghalu described the nominees\u2019 actions as \u201cstaggering,\u201d arguing that individuals who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79679","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\/79679","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79681,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79679\/revisions\/79681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}