NERC Appointment: NPC DG Declines Role in Smear Campaign Against Deputy Senate President Barau
From Ahmad Muhammad.
The Director-General of the National Productivity Center, Dr. Baffa Babba Danagundi, has vowed that he will not be part of any conspiracy to discredit Senator Barau Jibrin over the Senate’s decision to halt the screening of Engineer Abdullahi Ramat as Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
Ramat’s name was forwarded to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu in October, but the upper legislative chamber has yet to screen and confirm his appointment as stipulated by law.
A group led by one Alwan Hassan had pointed accusing fingers at the Deputy senate President Barau Jibrin and Nasiru Gawuna for the delay in the screening.
Dr. Dan Agundi threatened to expose the names of those who approached him to join the smear campaign against Senator Barau Jibrin if they continue to discredit the ranking Senator.
A statement by his spokesman Balarabe Kofar Naisa said that the Director General was also contacted to join in such an incident to smear Senator Barau Jibrin’s reputation on this issue of rejecting the nomination of Engineer Ramat by the Senate of Nigeria.
“‘Danagundi and I are different camps but Senator Barau Jibrin deserves respect from all APC members,’ he declared.
‘He’s blameless here: like all senators, he learned what went down in the chamber secondhand. Count me out of any mudslacking against him.’”
