President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as the Minister of State for Finance, succeeding Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday.

The statement also noted that Dr. Uzoka-Anite will now serve as Minister of State at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, marking her third portfolio in the administration.

According to Onanuga, President Tinubu has submitted Mr. Taiwo Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

The presidency described Oyedele as an economist, accountant, and public policy expert.

Onanuga noted that Oyedele contributed significantly to the overhaul of Nigeria’s tax system.

“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,” the statement partly reads.

The statement noted that Oyedele attended Yaba College of Technology, where he earned a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance.

He later obtained a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

“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 statement read.

Oyedele is reported to be a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.