President Bola Tinubu has nominated his tax reform Csar, Taiwo Oyedele, to replace Dr. Doris Anite-Uzoka as Minister of State for Finance, thereby elevating the man who spearheaded Nigeria’s most ambitious tax overhaul, into the role of deputy finance chief in a fresh cabinet shake-up.
As the Minister of State, Anite-Uzoka will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, her third portfolio in Tinubu’s administration.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said Tinubu has also conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
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.
Oyedele also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
He 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.