The Deputy Director-General of Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation in 2015, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, has rejected an appointment offered him by the president.
Buhari had nominated Mamora, a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, as the Chairman of the Board, Abuja Investment and Infrastructure Centre (AIIC).
However, a former APC gubernatorial aspirant in 2016, Mrs Jumoke Ajasin-Anifowoshe, was sworn into the position a few weeks ago, when the board was inaugurated by the FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello.
It was learnt that Mamora had rejected the appointment and approached the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, to convey his displeasure.
Mamora, a senator who represented Lagos East senatorial district from 2003 to 2011, reportedly felt that the appointment was beneath him.
However, it was learnt that during the inauguration of the board of the AIIC a few weeks ago, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the 2016 Ondo State governorship election, Mrs Jumoke Ajasin-Anifowoshe, was named the chairman.
Ajasin-Anifowose, who is the daughter of the first Governor of the old Ondo State, Adekunle Ajasin, was sworn in by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Bello.
Investigations by our correspondent showed that the ex-lawmaker rejected the appointment.
A reliable source told our correspondent that Mamora had met with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and expressed his displeasure with the appointment.