Fayose is a member of the faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike.
The board of the REA will now include Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engr. Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta, appointed non-executive directors.
The incumbent Director General of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed make up the remaining board members.
Also appointed is Major General Junaid Bindawa as Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.
A former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos State, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, is the new secretary of the commission. Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna States, were appointed as commissioners.
Dr Mai Adamu Yau from Borno, Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engr. Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members of the commission.
Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who was previously appointed as the Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund, has now been moved to the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.
President Tinubu also appointed Dr. Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission, Dr. Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading and Dr. Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
Engr. Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation, replacing Dr A. R. Kamal, who died last January.
The President also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr. Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as Chairman. The board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Shuni Muhammad Dahiru is the new Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, replacing Prof. Shu'aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was reassigned to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund in April.
To replace Mathias Byuan, the former Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue State, President Tinubu named Gisaor Vincent Iorja.
Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission.
All the appointments take immediate effect, according to Onanuga.
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