FAILURE HAS NO FRIEND: Professor Akintunde Akinwande, join other well-meaning Nigerians to reject President Buhari's appointment

More knocks for Buhari as Professor Akintunde Akinwande, whom he nominated as Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, neglected to show up at the Senate yesterday to screen.

Akinwande likewise declined to present to the Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, his date of birth, capabilities, specialization, post-graduate experience and National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. Earlier on, two different people nominated by the President have likewise dismissed his offer.

Though it is reported that Akinwande was said to have turned down the designation since he was not counseled before the declaration. However, some Nigerians are of the opinion that, these well-meaning Nigerians are declining any appointment from the current regime of President Buhari due to his gross failure to deliver the dividends of democracy, and his authoritarian system of administration.

He is not ready to leave his present businesses to take up the job,’’ a source told Vanguard, including that Akinwande was doing a venture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.

Akinwande had likewise neglected to present himself to the Department of State Services, DSS, for security checks.

Thus, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, told newsmen that the screening wasn't possible without the chairman elect. And deferred the screening until the Presidency returns to the Senate.

“Regrettably, when members of the committee assembled to screen the nominees made by President 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 said the Presidency ought to have known whether the director assign would go to the screening or not.

"The commission is indispensable and can't work without a director,'' Abaribe expressed.

Different candidates for the NERC board are Sanusi Garuba (Vice Chairman), Nathan R. Shatti (magistrate), Dr. Moses Arigu (official), Dafe C. Akpeneye (official), Prof. Straight to the point Okafor (official) and Musiliu O. Oseni (magistrate).