Buhari’s aide Bashir Ahmad denies appointment as DPR manager

Bashir Ahmad

Presidential aide Bashir Ahmad has discredited a report which claims he has been appointed as manager in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

An online platform (not Qed.ng) claimed in the report that President Muhammadu Buhari secretly made the appointment.

However, in a tweet on Monday, Mr Ahmad said the report was false.

“A friend sent me a link to a concocted story from an online news blog that the President has quietly appointed me as a manager of the DPR, a department of Ministry of Petroleum Resources, for those who want to know the truth, the story is 100% FALSE. I am not a staff of the DPR,” he said.

In another post, the presidential aide said, “I don’t even know where DPR office is, the only thing I know (is that) it is in Lagos. That’s all.”