President Bola Tinubu has nominated the chairman of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms, Taiwo Oyedele as the minister of state for finance.
Oyedele is expected to take over from Doris Uzoka-Anite, who is now being moved to the ministry of budget and planning — her third portfolio in Tinubu’s administration.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga has it that Tinubu already sent a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, conveying Oyedele’s nomination and requesting the senate’s confirmation.
Oyedele, the 50-year-old tax tsar whose committee overhauled Nigeria’s tax system, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.
He attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in accountancy and finance. He attended Oxford Brookes University and earned a BSc in applied accounting.
He 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 of his working career at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
The incoming minister is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
