Another President Muhammadu Buhari nominee, Prof. Akintunde Akinwande, designated to chair the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), may have snubbed the nomination.
Akinwande was absent at the Senate session yesterday and it stalled the screening of other nominees.
Checkpointcharley gathers that Akinwande turned down the nomination “because he was not consulted before the nomination was made”.
A source hinted that Akinwande was doing a project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
“We also learnt that enough consultation was not made before the man was nominated. We were informed that the nominee may have turned down his nomination,” the source said.
The source added that Akinwande failed to avail himself to the Department of State Services (DSS) for security checks.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe told reporters that there was no way the screening could go on in the absence of the chairman-designate.
“Regrettably, when members of the committee assembled to screen the nominees made by President Muhammadu Buhari, we were told that the chairman designate was unavoidably absent. The Presidential liaison who brought the nominees informed us that the chairman was unavoidably absent,” he said
Abaribe also observed that since the nomination was made over three months ago, and wondered why the Presidency did not know whether the chairman designate would attend the screening or not.
Other NERC nominees included Sanusi Garuba (Vice Chairman), Nathan R. Shatti (commissioner), Dr. Moses Arigu (commissioner), Dafe C. Akpeneye (commissioner), Prof. Frank Okafor(commissioner) and Musiliu O. Oseni(commissioner).
Recall that onTuesday, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, an ambassadorial nominee from Plateau State, also turned down her nomination for lack of consultation.
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