Tinubu seeks Senate confirmation of Oyedele, Abe as minister, NUPRC chairman

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to surface and corroborate Mr Taiwo Oyedele arsenic Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.

Tinubu arsenic charged the Senate to corroborate erstwhile Rivers South-East senator, Magnus Abe, arsenic president of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC.

These were contained successful abstracted letters work during plenary by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.

Tinubu urged the Senate to see and o.k. Oyedele’s information arsenic portion of ongoing adjustments wrong the Federal Executive Council.

Oyedele, from Ikaram successful Akoko, Ondo State, served arsenic president of the Presidential Committee connected Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, wherever helium spearheaded reforms aimed astatine overhauling Nigeria’s taxation system.

The 50-year-old is an economist, accountant and nationalist argumentation expert.

The President besides wrote to the Senate, seeking the screening and consequent confirmation of Abe arsenic president of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, pursuing the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.

Also for confirmation by the Senate are Paul Yaro Jezhi, a erstwhile Trade Union Congress president successful Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a erstwhile lawman manager astatine the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources.

Both were nominated arsenic non-executive commissioners.

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