President Tinubu Nominates Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka.

The nomination was disclosed on Tuesday in Abuja by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

According to the statement, Anite-Uzoka has been redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third portfolio in the current administration.

President Tinubu has formally conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Until his nomination, Oyedele, a native of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system.

Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

He has also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

He is currently a professor at Babcock University and serves as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.

The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.