As Hadiza would later find out, office politics could be more fierce, more complicated and often more vicious than electoral politics.
Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director, Nigeria Ports Authority .
Her recommender, major financier and former Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, and the then new Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, was someone she was just getting to know. While not everyone who gets a political appointment may end up bruising toes like Hadiza did, her odyssey in 1,785 days on a job where she could have served and potentially given a lot more, is a warning to those contemplating political appointments.
And it often comes down to what happens around the big decisions on contracts – money, big money.
Not long afterwards her problem started. The big man expected to be treated differently. He expected exemptions, waivers and downright cover-ups, even in matters where Federal Government financial regulations clearly stated otherwise. The second woman’s story was slightly different. Unlike Hadiza, and the governor’s mincemeat, Yewande Sadiku had been headhunted as executive director of Stanbic IBTC bank to serve as executive secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council in 2016, about the same time Hadiza was appointed to NPA. Her battles were, however, of a different kind.
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