Tinubu wrote to the Senate to screen and confirm tax reform boss Oyedele, former Senator Abe and others

President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate to screen and confirm Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.

The president also urged the upper house to confirm Magnus Abe, a former senator representing Rivers South East district, as chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.

Tinubu made the request in a separate letter read out at the plenary session by the President of the Senate, Insha Allah Akpabio.

In the letter, Tinubu urged the Senate to consider and approve Oyedele’s nomination as part of the ongoing adjustments in the Federal Executive Council.

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Tinubu’s letter was read by Akpabio, who then referred the nomination to the Senate Upstream Oil Committee for further legislative action.

Until his nomination as minister, Oyedele, from Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform, where he spearheaded reforms aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s taxation system.

This 50 year old man is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.

Also confirmed by the Senate were Paul Yaro Jezhi, former chairman of the Trades Union Congress in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources. Both were nominated as non-executive commissioners.