Fayose, 25 others gets President Tinubu’s appointments

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, and 25 others have been given appointments by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this known in a statement on Monday.

According to Onanuga, Fayose will serve as the chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), with Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.

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.

President Tinubu made eight other appointments to the Wages Commission along with Bindawa.

Former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos State, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, is the new secretary of the commission.

Dr. Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna States, were appointed as commissioners.

Dr. Mai Adamu Yau, from Borno State, Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo), and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members of the Commission.

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, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.

President 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 State-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing Dr. A. R. Kamal, who died last January.

President Tinubu 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.

Shuni Muhammad Dahiru is 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 State, President 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).

Onanuga said “all the appointments take immediate effect”.

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