Due to the 2016
budget controversy, Buhari fired the Director-General for Budget, Mr Yaya
Gusau, announced a replacement in the person of Mr Tijjani Abdullahi. Also, Mr
Ben Akabueze was appointed Special Adviser to the President on National
Planning.
The two
appointments take immediate effect. President Buhari also appointed former
House of Representatives member, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa as his Senior Special
Assistant on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora.
The President
sacked heads of 26 federal parastatals, agencies and commissions. The sack of
the Director-General, Budget Office and heads of other parastatals is coming on
the heels of President Buhari’s sack of some university vice-chancellors.
The President
also, yesterday, approved the immediate disengagement of 26 chief executive
officers of some federal parastatals, agencies and commissions. PRESIDENT
MUHAMMADU BUHARI Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal in
a statement, said those affected in the gale of sack include head of the
Nigerian Television Authority, NTA; Mr. Sola Omole; heads of Federal Radio
Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN; Voice of Nigeria, VON; News Agency of Nigeria,
NAN National Broadcasting Commission, NBC and the Petroleum Technology
Development Fund, PTDF.
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