The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, has denied claims that he has been appointed to head the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.
An online platform had published a report stating that President Muhammadu Buhari secretly appointed Bashir Ahmad.
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Dismissing the report as false, Ahmad took to his verified Twitter handle to state that he’s not a staff of the DPR.
“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.”
