The Presidency has disclosed that President Muhammadu
Buhari has an economic management team.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on
Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a
telephone interview with our correspondent last light.
Akande was reacting to a media report that quoted some
economic experts as urging the president to form his
economic team.
According to him, the economic team of President Buhari
has been put in place since the inauguration of the Federal
Executive Council (FEC) last November.
Akande said the economic management team is headed by
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
He listed the team’s key members as including the
Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator
Udoma Udo Udoma; the Minister of Finance, Kemi
Adeosun; the Minister of Trade, Industry and
Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah; the Governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godswin Emefiele; and
the Director-General of the Debt Management Office
(DMO).
He said the composition of the team was not static as
Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbe and Information Minister
Lai Mohammed as well as relevant permanent secretaries
have also been involved.
The vice president’s aide said the team had since been
meeting and engaging representatives of the private sector.
He noted that unlike what obtained in the past, Buhari’s
administration did not make anybody from the private
sector a member of the economic management team.
The vice president’s spokesman also exclusively told our
correspondent that President Buhari had appointed Dr.
Oluyemi Dipeolu as his Special Adviser on Economic
Matters.
He said the economic adviser, who was until his
appointment in January a director in the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), has been
working with the economic management team.
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