UPDATED: Tinubu nominates Oyedele as finance minister of state, moves Anite-Uzoka

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, the former chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as the new Minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Anite-Uzoka.

In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday, President Tinubu requested Senate confirmation for Oyedele, a 50-year-old economist, accountant, and public policy expert from Ikaram, Akoko in Ondo State.

Anite-Uzoka, who now moves to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, will hold her third portfolio in the administration.

Oyedele’s nomination caps his pivotal role in overhauling Nigeria’s tax system. Educated at Yaba College of Technology (HND in accountancy and finance) and Oxford Brookes University (BSc in applied accounting), he also completed executive programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, Gordon Institute of Business Science, and Harvard Kennedy School.

He spent 22 years at PwC, rising to fiscal policy partner and Africa tax leader after joining in 2001. Oyedele currently serves as a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced the development in a State House press release. “President Tinubu has conveyed the nomination of Mr Taiwo Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation,” the release stated.