Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Uzoka-Anite.
The request was conveyed in a letter read during plenary on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
In a separate correspondence, the President also nominated former senator Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
Tinubu urged the Senate to consider and approve Oyedele’s nomination as part of ongoing adjustments within the Federal Executive Council.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led initiatives aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old economist, accountant and public policy expert spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He joined the firm in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
In the same letter, the President also nominated Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former chairman of the Trade Union Congress in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners of the NUPRC.
After reading the letters, Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further legislative action and screening.
