President Tinubu Sends Oyedele, Abe’s Nominations to Senate
By Ranti Thomas
President Bola Tinubu has requested the Senate of Nigeria to screen and confirm Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.
In the same letter, the President also urged the Senate to confirm former Rivers South-East senator, Magnus Abe, as chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The letters were read during plenary by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further legislative action.
Tinubu asked the Senate to consider Oyedele’s nomination as part of ongoing adjustments within the Federal Executive Council. Oyedele, from Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, previously served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led reforms aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old is an economist, accountant, and public policy expert. He spent 22 years at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Also submitted for confirmation are Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former Trade Union Congress chairman in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, both nominated as non-executive commissioners of the NUPRC.
The Senate is expected to review and take legislative action on all the nominations in the coming days.