After Power Play Buhari’s Intervention Clears Way For Ogunbiyi At UN

Immediate-past Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ms Damilola Ogunbiyi, has assumed duty at her new job at the United Nations, the United Nations announced on Tuesday.

The announcement came as President Muhammadu Buhari reversed her suspension from office by the minister of power, Sale Mamman.

Mamman after suspending her appointed Mr. Ahmad Salihajo Ahmad to replace her at the REA.

Buhari on Tuesday countermanded the minister by lifting the suspension which he turned into resignation. However, her replacement, Ahmad is to remain in office as the new Managing Director of the agency.

Ogunbiyi it was learnt had tendered her resignation since last October to enable her resume her new job at the UN but her stint with the Federal Government agency came to a bruising end when the minister instead of accepting her resignation turned it into an indefinite suspension from office.

A UN spokesman, Mr Farhan Haq, however, said that Ms. Ogunbiyi had resumed work at the UN in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York.

Haq said Ogunbiyi, who was appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in October, started work on Jan. 1.

President Buhari had reversed the suspension slapped on Ogunbiyi by the minister for “lack of due process”, according to a letter from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Monday.

The letter, addressed to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, conveyed the president’s acceptance of Ogunbiyi’s resignation from the REA with effect from Dec. 31.

“The Government of Nigeria has publicly communicated and also informed the United Nations that the suspension of Ogunbiyi was reversed.

“Accordingly, she has begun her appointment at the United Nations as of Jan. 1,” the UN spokesman said in response to a NAN enquiry on Monday.

The enquiry, made before Buhari’s intervention, had sought the Secretary-General’s reaction to the suspension and its implication for Ogunbiyi’s appointment with the UN.

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