Tinubu Appoints Ayodele Fayose, Junaid Bindawa as Chairmen of REA, NSIWC

• Names new CEOs for NPC, NBET, NAEC, NCAM, FRC, NCMLANFE

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, announced 26 new appointments into 10 federal government agencies and commissions, with former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, emerging as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Major General Junaid Bindawa (rtd) as Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.

In a release by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, Fayose heads the board of REA, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors.

The incumbent DG of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed make up the remaining board members.

The President made eight other appointments to the Wages Commission, along with Major General Bindawa.

A former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, is the new secretary of the commission. 

Dr. Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, were appointed as commissioners.

Dr. Mai Adamu Yau, from Borno,  Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members of the Commission.

Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who was previously appointed the Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been moved to the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.

Tinubu also appointed 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/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.

Engineer Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation(NCAM), replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died last January.

The president constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as chairman.

The board members included Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.

Shuni Muhammad Dahiru is the new 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 replace Mathias Byuan, the former executive director, finance of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue State, President Tinubu named Gisaor Vincent Iorja.

Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).

According to the statement, all the appointments took immediate effect.