Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says the National Assembly was playing double standard for confirming former service chiefs as non-career ambassadors.
He said this on Wednesday when he hosted members of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta who paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt.
Wike said the senators, who had earlier decried the poor performance of the service chiefs, sat to clear them for another appointment.
He said “let me use this opportunity to express the dismay of most Nigerians to the Senate. Convey this to the Senate. We must be courageous in whatever we are doing. Everything must not be party affairs. You (senators) sat and discussed that they should dismiss the service chiefs. You said they’re not performing.
“Now the same people who were not performing, you have confirmed them as ambassadors. What kind of country are we,? He asked
