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Reports Osinbajo flouted due process in supervision of agencies false, misleading — Aide

by The Eagle Online
September 17, 2019
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Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, says reports that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo did not follow due process in the supervsion of agencies under him are false and misleading.
Akande in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the report by The Cable published on Tuesday, which claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed Osinbajo to seek approvals for agencies under him was sensational.
He said that the report suggested, falsely, that agencies under the supervision of the vice President did not normally comply with established rules where presidential approvals were required.
He said: “This is obviously misleading and aims only to plant seeds of discord in the Presidency, while attempting to create unnecessary national hysteria.
“The agencies in question are established by law and the vice president has always insisted on due compliance with the enabling statutes and other established regulations.
“Depending on the particular scope of activity in question, agencies may require management approval only, at the level of the Director-General or Chief Executive Officer.
“In this category falls the great majority of their day-to-day activities.
“However, other activities, or procurements, with value exceeding a certain threshold, require Board approval.
“These may get to the agency Board chaired by the Vice President.
“In a few cases where presidential approval is required, the Director-General must seek such approval from the President, through the vice president.
“These rules have always guided the activities of statutory agencies and the ones under the vice president’s supervision have always been so guided.”
Akande said that to claim that in the first term of the Buhari administration, agencies of government had not been complying with the provisions (of getting final approvals from the president) was false.
According to him, the attempt to suggest the vice president’s complicity in such irregularities is simply mischievous and reprehensible.
He said that effective and mutually respecting relationship between the president and the vice president was well known to Nigerians and it was futile to insinuate otherwise.
He said: “Even though the vice president has a statutory role as Board Chairman of some government agencies under his office, with appropriate approval limits, which often do not include contract approvals, it is ludicrous to even insinuate that a Board Chairman approves contracts.
“Evidently, the Federal Executive Council, which oversees Federal Ministries and agencies of government, is chaired by the President, and it is in its purview to approve or ratify award of contracts within the prescribed threshold.
“The vice president remains committed to the service of his fatherland and will continue to do so despite the purveyors of fake news.
“We urge media organisations, as gatekeepers, to uphold truth, balance, fairness and objectivity in their reports.”

Tags: Laolu AkandeMedia and PublicityMuhammadu BuhariYemi Osinbajo
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