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As the Presidency stays action on the appointment of the new acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Shelmsudeen Babatunde Ogunjimi, the incumbent AGF, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein has redeployed him.
Ogunjinmi is one of the 21 Treasury officers posted out by Madein in a circular dated December 18, 2024, addressed to permanent secretaries, titled: “Posting of Treasury Officers”.
Ogunjinmi is number five on the list and has been posted to the accounts unit of the Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN), Abuja. He is to fill a vacancy and not understudying anyone unlike some of his colleagues.
Tensions are running high within the Nigerian civil service following the sudden reversal of Ogunjinmi, with insiders attributing the move to an escalating power tussle among political heavyweights in the presidency, the finance ministry and Office of the AGF (OAGF).
Cracks within the civil service were noticed last week after President Bola Tinubu reportedly stayed action on Ogunjimi’s appointment.
The move follows the advice of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack.
It was gathered that she felt the appointment of an acting AGF could only be made at the expiration of the terminal leave of the substantive AGF, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein.
It was further learnt that Walson-Jack saw it as inappropriate and blatant negation of civil service procedures to have a substantive AGF and acting AGF when the former was yet to complete the retirement process.
Madein, who was caught unawares by the appointment of a new AGF without her input, had insisted on completing her mandatory retirement procedures before quitting.
The entire back and forth has bred tension within as OAGF workers are confused and really do not know who is in charge and whose lead must be followed.
