Buhari Appoints UNECA Director Economic Adviser As Presidency Unveils Buhari’s Economic Team

Buhari-UN-Assembly-8President Muhammadu Buhari has an economic management team, the Presidency has disclosed.
The Presidency was reacting to a media report that quoted some economic experts as urging the president to constitute his economic team in the face of current economic challenges bedeviling the country.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, who disclosed this in a telephone interview last light, said 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 spokesman said the team had since been meeting and engaging representatives of the private sector.
He noted that unlike what obtained in the past, the Buhari administration did not make anybody from the private sector a member of the economic management team.
Akande also disclosed 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.