Another PMB’s Northern Appointment: Dan-Azumi Ibrahim Is NOTAP Director General

President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Dan-Azumi Ibrahim as the director general of the National office for technological acquisition and promotion (NOTAP).

President Muhammadu Buhari approved yesterday Dan-Azumi Mohammed Ibrahim as the substantive director general of the National office for technological acquisition and promotion.  Prior to this appointment Dan-Azumi Ibrahim worked as  the acting director general NOTAP taking over from his former chief Umar Bindir after his appointment as the Secretary to the Adamawa state government.

Dan-Azumi Ibrahim’s appointment was contained in an official correspondence from the SGF Babachir David Lawal.

Dan-Azumi Ibrahim hails from Hardawa, Misau local government area, Bauchi state. In 1987 he graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a master’s degree in soil microbiology. In 2004 he graduated with a doctorate degree in soil fertility from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi.

Dan-Azumi Ibrahim started his career as a lecturer at the University of Maiduguri. He has numerous scientific publications to his credit.  Dan-Azumi Ibrahim joined NOTAP in 2010.

The appointment of more northerners on Thursday, August 27, by President Muhammamdu Buhari has been greeted with extreme repugnance by leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Buhari, according to a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, approved the appointment of Babachir David Lawal from Adamawa state as the secretary to the government of the federation as he also named Abba Kyari from Borno state as his chief of staff.

Other appointments approved by the president, according to the statement, are those of Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) as the new comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service; Kure Martin Abeshi, comptroller general, Nigerian Immigration Service; Senator Ita Enang, senior special assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate); and Suleiman Kawu as SSA on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).

This has, however, triggered the ire of leaders of the APC, who in an interview with The Punch, said that the appointments favour only the north, adding that President Buhari was already giving the party a bad name among Nigerians.