- Safiu Kehinde
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, and 25 others across into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions.
This was annkunced in statement issued on Monday evening by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
As contained in the statement, Tinubu appointed Fayose as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Fayose heads the board of REA, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors.
The incumbent DG of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed make up the remaining board members.
Also making the list of fresh appointees is Maj. Gen. Junaid Bindawa who emerged as chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission.
Tinubu made eight other appointments to the Wages Commission, along with Bindawa.
They include former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, who was appointed as the new secretary of the commission.
Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, were appointed as commissioners.
In the same vein, Dr Mai Adamu Yau, from Borno, Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh(Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members of the Commission.
Meanwhile, Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who was previously appointed as the Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been moved to the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.
Tinubu also appointed Dr Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission, Dr Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), and Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
Engineer Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation(NCAM), replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died last January.
The president also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as chairman.
The board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
On the other hand, Shuni Muhammad Dahiru was appointed the new executive secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, replacing Professor Shu’aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was reassigned to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) in April.
To replace Mathias Byuan, the former executive director, finance of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue, Tinubu named Gisaor Vincent Iorja. Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
All the appointments, according to Onanuga, are billed to take immediate effect.