President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Tijjani Abdullahi as the new Director-General in charge of the Budget Office of the Federation.

The President also approved the appointment of Ben Akabueze as the Special Adviser on Planning to the Minister of Budget and National Planning.

Mr. Abdullahi, a fellow of the Certified National Accountants of Nigeria, and a banker of repute with experience in managing public finance, will replace the current Director-General (Budget), Yahaya Gusau.

Mr. Gusau, who replaced Bright Okogu, who completed two terms of office, was appointed to the office on August 18, 2015, for a term of four years that could have been renewable for another four years.

But he has now been sacked following the widespread irregularities detected in the 2016 budget presently under consideration by the National Assembly.

Presidency sources told PREMIUM TIMES Mr. Buhari believed that the sacked DG failed to effectively deliver on his mandate.

The new Director-General (Budget) is expected to work with the Minister of Budget and National Planning to efficiently deliver on the mandates of the Budget Office of the Federation, a statement by the presidency said.

Mr Akabueze, who is the immediate past Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget in Lagos State, has worked in senior management positions in Citi Bank, Fidelity Bank, United Bank for Africa, NAL Merchant Bank, Sterling Bank and BIA Consulting Limited, among others.

He is Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; Fellow, Institute of Credit Administrators and Honorary Fellow, Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Drefan:
This old fool is just running around circles.

loopman:


Another insatiable ineffectual buffoon.

Drefan:
This old fool is just running around circles, building castles in the air. The APC rats are objects of little value that are being used for Buhari's selfish and vile interests. You guys will keep hoping and hoping that someday your amiable president will set things right, but unfortunately, that is only a fantasy that cannot be brought into fruition.

Obiagelli:


The president was unable to appoint Ben Akabueze as minister because of the silly constitution that say one minister per state.
Ben was budget commissioner under Fashola, the constantly achieved over 70% budget implementation

mars123:
ol boy go and sleep.

Aufbauh:
"Outstanding people have something in common, an absolute sense of mission" - Zig Ziglar

This is how to be presidential! If your subject can not take adequate care of his/her responsibilities you show him/her the way out irrespective of your ties.
Buhari's action is a statement of intent about his mission.

lawydewy:
Some Igbo are not sincere!

Imaging Tunubu Empire gave Mr Akabueze commissioner in lagos. They will come up and Yoruba hate Igbo.


He is not only one been given appointment.

doctokwus:
This is what is expected.
Anybody that doesn't key into the change mantra,zero tolerance for corruption and wants to sabotage efforts of the govt to sanitize Nigeria should be shown the way out,pure and simple.
I expect more heads to roll.

seunmsg:
The president should immediately sack the DG budget office and the minister of Budget and national planning. They have both failed the president. The massive fraud in the budget was perpetrated in the budget office and the leadership should be made to pay for it.

Going forward, the president needs to appoint a very knowledgeable and trusted management or public accountant as his special assistant on budget. The SA budget and his team will help the president review the budget before it is presented to FEC for approval. If due diligence was carried out on this budget after it was compiled by the budget office, all this paddling, inflation and errors would have been detected and the president would have been spared of this national embarrassment.

PreyingMantis:
Don't be fooled by Buhari's theatrics and grandstanding. The incompetent cattle-rustler is only trying to save face by scape-goating someone else. Did he not append his signature on that fraudulent document before presenting it to the National Assembly? Did you Zombies not hail the said budget of corruption as the best thing that happened to Nigeria since independence?

Unfortunately for you people, Nigerians are smarter now and you all got busted.

Drefan:

Buhari has withheld your sense of reasoning, so any rubbish he says, you have no choice than to concur. Psychopantic porcupine.