The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday said an appointment letter circulating on social media allegedly issued to Nigeria President media aide Bashir Ahmad is “fake” and a “handiwork of mischief maker.”
“We hereby advise members of the public to disregard the purported letter in its entirety as it is not from DPR,” DPR’s head of public affairs Paul Osu said in a statement.
“We wish to reiterate that employment into the Department is carried out in accordance with extant rules guiding such exercises in the Nigerian Public Service in line with due process.” x
Peoples Gazzette, a digital news outlet, Monday published a report that Ahmad was appointed “to supervise a powerful and lucrative division at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) a role that supersedes his work experience and area of expertise.”
Presidential aide Bashir Ahmad has denied being given a secret appointment in a unit under the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Ahmad said the story is “100% not true” and was a concocted claim. “A friend sent me a link to a concocted story from an online news blog that the […]