JUST IN: AYO FAYOSE EMERGES REA CHAIRMAN AS TINUBU UNVEILS 26 NEW FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS

AYO FAYOSE EMERGES REA CHAIRMAN AS TINUBU UNVEILS 26 NEW FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of 26 individuals into the boards and leadership of 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions, with former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, emerging as the new Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

The appointments, announced on Monday in a statement by the President's Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, take immediate effect.

Fayose will head the board of the Rural Electrification Agency alongside Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta, who were appointed as members and non-executive directors. The agency's Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three previously appointed executive directors will complete the board.

President Tinubu also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa as Chairman of the National Salaries and Wages Commission. Former Lagos lawmaker Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas was named Secretary of the Commission, while Dr. Ogbole Ene Lilian (Benue), Oladele Olatubosun (Oyo), Yakubu Umar Barde (Kaduna), Dr. Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo), and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as commissioners and members.

In another key appointment, Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who was earlier named Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has been redeployed as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission.

Other appointments include 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 and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.

President Tinubu also appointed Engineer Julius Oloro as Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing the late Dr. A.R. Kamal, who passed away in January.

The President further inaugurated the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission with Dr. Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as Chairman. Other board members are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr. Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele, and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.

Additionally, Shuni Muhammad Dahiru was appointed 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 fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mathias Byuan as Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority, President Tinubu appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja, an economist, legal scholar, and Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).

According to the Presidency, all the appointments take immediate effect.

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