The
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that as far as
federal government appointments to public offices and key positions are
concerned, the era of “godfatherism’’ is over.
The minister stated this in Abuja on Sunday at
a thanksgiving reception by the newly appointed Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe.
Mr. Mohammed, who was represented by Bayo
Onanuga, the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, stated that
appointment to positions in the federal government “is strictly by merit’’.
“Gone are those days when people were appointed
into positions by other factors apart from merit.
“Most of us must have heard that the new permanent
secretaries were asked to write examination; Gekpe was one of the very few that
scaled through the examination.
“Gekpe is a shining and beautiful woman. That
could have earned her the appointment, but not under this regime of Change.
“She is a permanent secretary by virtue of hard
work, merit and because she has a lot of things to offer,” he said.
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