President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been called upon to intervene in the appointment of a substantive Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to prevent appointing someone that is not fit for the job.
The Contractors Association of Nigeria said the call became imperative to make sure that the right person is appointed owing to the importance of the agency.
The contractors in a statement by their chairman, Yusuf Abubakar, said, “The moment the BPP is subdued, all other due processes in the country is gone. And for it not to be subdued, that is why we are calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to allow the plot to bypass the laid down civil service process of succession in the public sector, as being planned in cohort with a few top government officials in the Presidential Villa.
“The BPP has always been headed by an engineer who is vast in contract and procurement rudiments. Little surprise that a clique who claimed to have the backing of the Presidency is projecting someone who is not an engineer but a graduate of Business Administration to head BPP as Director General.
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“If this should happen, it will be a disgrace to President Bola Tinubu and to Nigeria because procurement in government offices would henceforth, be done on a ‘cash and carry’ basis.
“Our appeal to President Bola Tinubu is to save his government from embarrassment. We are just beginning a new government in which every Nigerian has a lot of hope. The hope is so high that the government cannot afford to miss its steps.”
