President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 20 federal commissioners to serve in the National Population Commission, with nine current federal commissioners being appointed for a second term in office.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement titled ‘President Tinubu appoints twenty federal commissioners of the national population commission.’
Among the reappointed commissionrs are Dr. Clifford Zirra (Adamawa), Mr. Chidi Ezeoke (Anambra), Isa Buratai (Borno), Dr. Tony Aiyejina (Edo), Mr. Ejike Ezeh (Enugu), Abubakar Damburam (Gombe), Prof. Uba Nnabue (Imo), Mudashiru Hussain (Osun), and Mr. Saany Sale (Taraba).
Meanwhile, the new appointees are Emmanuel Eke (Abia), Alex Ukam (Cross River), Blessyn Brume-Ataguba (Delta), Dr. Jeremiah Nwankwegu (Ebonyi), Ms. Sa’adatu Garba (Kaduna) and Dr. Aminu Tsanyawa (Kano).
Others include Yori Afolabi (Kogi), Olakunle Sobukola (Ogun), Temitayo Oluwatuyi (Ondo), Ms. Mary Afan (Plateau), and Mr. Ogiri Henry (Rivers).
The President has charged both the newly appointed and returning NPC Federal Commissioners to “successfully implement all measures taken by his administration to produce and effectively appropriate accurate population data with which lasting solutions to Nigeria’s socio-political and economic challenges can be conclusively developed and executed.”
Kanyi Daily recalls that Bola Tinubu, appointed nine new Resident Electoral Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), each serving a five-year term pending Senate confirmation.
