President Bola Tinubu has directed the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mamman Ahmadu to resign immediately.
A presidency statement today, June 15, said that the resignation of the CEO is part of the reorganization being carried out in the public procurement system to reposition the agency for greater efficiency and transparency.
The President asked the sacked Director-General to hand over the office to the most senior officer in the Bureau pending the appointment of a new Director-General.
President Tinubu, according to the statement, appointed Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi as the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
The statement said that Gbeleyi is a renowned financial expert and award-winning chartered accountant.
The new appointee 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.
He 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 was the board Chairman of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) and Commissioner of Finance in Lagos State from 2013 to 2015.
