A
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for the second time
shunned the Nigerian Senate's invitation for screening in a job referred
by President Buhari.
Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande
President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee for the Chairmanship of the
Board of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, Prof. Akintunde
Akinwande, on Wednesday, failed to show up again for the screening by
the Senate.
According to News 24, this is the second time Akinwande has shunned
the Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe-led committee on Power, Steel Development
and Metallurgy. He was not just absent, but informally told the
committee that he was not available for the job
The committee had in October invited Akinwande and other nominees for screening.
Akinwande, who is based in the United States of America, however,
did not show up for screening when others did. His screening was
rescheduled for Wednesday by the Senate.
A source in the committee disclosed that Akinwande sent a text
message to a member of the committee, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi that he
was not interested in the job.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly
Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, however tried to persuade the
committee not to interpret Akinwande’s absence to mean that he had
declined the President’s nomination.
Enang said: “I would want to plead with the committee that the
nominee was simply absent. I will communicate with the President and
get more information about him and get back.”
Enang's remark according to The Nation was quickly rebuffed by
members of the committee, who openly declared that they had tried enough
and would not be ready to reconvene a third screening session for
Akinwande.
The Senate is expected to take a decision on the matter based on the report the committee would be submitting for consideration.
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