Akinyemi, who said the situation is unusual, stressed that
the president owes Nigerians an explanation.

The ex-minister said this on Thursday, while responding to
questions in an interview on Arise Television.

He stated that the delay could not be attributed to a lack
of funding, stressing that the governments gauge a nation’s sentiment and
assesses their own performance by the presence of fully functioning embassies.

“I think the President owes us really an explanation. There
must be something there, and that makes it difficult for me to explain. Well,
it’s not my job to explain. It’s the job of the foreign minister to explain why
we don’t have ambassadors after two years of this administration.

“It cannot be due to lack of money, because since this
government came on board, you could see how revenue has increased, and what
they’ve done with the revenue is to increase money going to the states,
increase money going to the National Assembly. Surely, part of this increase in
revenue would have been made available to have ambassadors in different countries,”
he said.