By Ayodele Oni
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as the Minister of State for Finance. He replaces Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, who has, for the second time in about two years, reassigned by the President.
When she was first appointed, she was given a Ministry – Minister of Trade and Investment – to man. But she was soon redeployed to the Ministry of Finance as Minister of State. And now, she has again been moved to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State. The Medical Doctor-turned banker-turned Politician is from Imo State. This is her third Ministerial portfolio since her first appointment, the only Minister to have so moved.
Oyedele, until his new appointment was heading the tax reform body, which has clamped on Nigerians various taxes.
Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, (Information and Strategy), in a statement stated that Tinubu on Tuesday, conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Until President Tinubu nominated him as a Minister, Oyedele from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State, was the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, 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.
Oyedele is also a Professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
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