In the end, Nigeria’s obsequious Senate lived up to its reputation. Toadyish and subservient as ever, it supinely rubber-stamped President Bola Tinubu’s tacky list of ambassadorial nominees without as much as a whimper. Following the infamous and shameful “bow and go” practice it has adopted in approving President Tinubu’s political appointees, the Senate recently waived through his ambassadorial nominees without questioning.
The perverse implication of nominating controversial figures, and of clearing them without scrutiny, is that the Pres
