{"id":46354,"date":"2018-09-26T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46354"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:22:46","slug":"buharis-2015-campaign-deputy-dg-mamora-finally-gets-federal-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46354","title":{"rendered":"Buhari’s 2015 campaign Deputy DG, Mamora finally gets federal appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olorunnimbe Mamora, as the Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA).<\/p>\n

A letter signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transportation, Sabiu Zakari, and dated 24th September, 2018, said the appointment was with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mamora, who represented Lagos East district in the Senate from 2003 to 2011, was Deputy Director General of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation during the 2015 election.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of 2018, Mamora turned down Buhari\u2019s appointment as Chairman of the Abuja Investment and Infrastructure Centre (AIIC).<\/p>\n

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During the inauguration of the board, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2016 Ondo State governorship election, Mrs. Jumoke Ajasin-Anifowoshe, was named the chairman.<\/p>\n

Ajasin-Anifowose, daughter of the first Governor of the old Ondo State, Adekunle Ajasin, was sworn in by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Bello.<\/p>\n

Mamora, had then, met with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and expressed his displeasure with the appointment.<\/p>\n

Informed sources said he felt the appointment, which is the equivalent of a state parastatal, was not befitting and argued that people who never participated in the process that brought Buhari to power were occupying the front seats of government.<\/p>\n

Earlier in 2016, Mamora was reportedly pencilled down to be the Chairman of the Board of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in 2016 but was edged out by some powerful forces.<\/p>\n

Also in 2016, the former speaker was nominated as an Ambassador but his name was withdrawn for undisclosed reasons.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olorunnimbe Mamora, as the Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). A letter signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transportation, Sabiu Zakari, and dated 24th September, 2018, said the appointment was with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41,5289],"class_list":["post-46354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-buhari","tag-momora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}