President Bola Tinubu on Saturday, replaced Mamman Ahmadu with Mr Ayodeji Gbeleyi as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Bureau of Public Procurement.
Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in two separate statements on Saturday.
The statement said the directive is part of a larger reorganization effort in the public procurement system to reposition the agency for greater efficiency and transparency.
It added that the former BPP Director-General has been directed to hand over to the most senior officer in the Bureau, pending the appointment of a new Director-General.
Tinubu thanked Ahmadu for his services and wished him success in his future endeavours.
Recall that last year, a group known as Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NAGAD) had sued President Tinubu over the appointment of Ahmadu, which it said did not follow due process and the Public Procurement Act 2007.
However, a separate statement by Ngelale announced Tinubu’s approval of the appointment of Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi as the new Director-General of the BPE.
According to the statement, Gbeleyi is a renowned financial expert and award-winning chartered accountant.
The new BPP boss is a fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).
He is also an alumnus of executive programmes of the prestigious London Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Lagos Business School.
Gbeleyi has over 30 years of post-qualification experience in diverse sectors, including manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), investment & commercial banking, project finance, telecommunications, infrastructure, and public administration.
He once served as the board Chairman of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) and Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State from 2013 to 2015.
The President added that he’s expecting the new BPP Director-General to bring his vast experience and competence to bear in this role to strengthen the agency as the national resource centre for capacity building and sustenance of reforms through the promotion of a competitive private sector-driven economy, ensuring social accountability and efficient deployment of public resources, as well as advancing effective corporate governance and fiduciary discipline in the public and private sectors.
