Tinubu nominates Oyedele as minister of state for Finance
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Anite-Uzoka. Anite-Uzoka was moved to the Budget and National Planning Ministry as minister of
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Anite-Uzoka.
Anite-Uzoka was moved to the Budget and National Planning Ministry as minister of state, marking her third ministerial portfolio under the current administration.
Tinubu conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday.
The president later posted Oyedele’s nomination on his X(formerly Twitter) handle @officialABAT.
A part of the post reads: ‘’Taiwo has served our nation diligently as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, leading the overhaul of our tax system with clarity, courage, and competence.
‘’His depth as an economist, accountant, and public policy expert will strengthen our fiscal architecture at a critical time.
‘’Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite will continue to serve the nation as minister of state at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. Her experience across portfolios remains valuable to our reform agenda.
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‘’We are building a team defined by expertise, discipline, and results.
The work continues. Nigeria First. ‘’
Fifty-year-old Oyedele, an indigene of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of experience spanning the public and private sectors.
He holds a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, a 161-year-old ivory tower in England.
He completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School in the United States and the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa.
Before his appointment, Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, playing a key role in advising governments and multinational organisations on tax and fiscal policy matters.
In addition to his professional career, Oyedele is a professor at Babcock University, Ogun State, and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
His nomination is expected to further strengthen the administration’s fiscal reform drive, particularly in the areas of revenue mobilisation, tax administration and economic coordination, subject to Senate confirmation.
Anite-Uzoka, a University of Benin-trained medical doctor and financial risk management and portfolio management specialist, was first minister of state, Industry, Trade and Investment.
As Minister of State for Finance, she played a central role in supervising the verification and disbursement of payments owed to federal contractors, insisting that every naira released must pass through stringent due process checks.
