The immediate past Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed has landed a World Bank job as an Alternate Executive Director, but not without controversy.
Baring hitches, she will resume at the bank’s headquarters in Washington on July 10.
However, there appears to be pushback from some who alleged that the former minister did not follow due process.
A report by Wall Street Journal quoted Washington sources as saying that Mrs. Ahmed circumvented appointment procedures by nominating herself .
The report also had it that the World Bank had requested for the nominations of three economists for an AED position, several months before the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, but that the minister kept the letter to herself.
It was also alleged that the minister neither obtained President Buhari’s approval of her self-nomination nor the approval of the new President, Sen. Bola Tinubu.
