Tinubu Appoints Fayose REA Chairman, Announces 26 New Federal Appointments
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved 26 new appointments into 10 federal government agencies and commissions, with former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, appointed chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and Major General Junaid Bindawa named chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission.
The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Monday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
Under the new REA board, Fayose will serve as chairman, while Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta were appointed as members and non-executive directors. The board also includes the agency’s incumbent Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, alongside three executive directors previously appointed.
For the National Salary and Wages Commission, President Tinubu appointed Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, a former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos, as secretary of the commission.
The president also named Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian (Benue), Oladele Olatubosun (Oyo) and Yakubu Umar Barde (Kaduna) as commissioners.
Other members of the commission are Dr Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi).
In another key appointment, Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who had earlier been appointed Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), was redeployed as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission.
President Tinubu also approved the appointment of 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/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
At the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM) in Kwara State, Engineer Julius Oloro, a former local government council chairman, was appointed Chief Executive Officer, replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died in January.
The president also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu appointed chairman.
Other members of the board are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
In the education sector, 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.
President Tinubu also appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja as Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority, replacing Mathias Byuan, who resigned to contest the Benue State governorship election. Iorja is an economist, legal scholar and academic currently serving as Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
According to the presidency, all the appointments take immediate effect.
