President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Zacch Adedeji as the acting executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale made this known in a statement on Thursday.
Mr Ngelale said Tinubu had directed the erstwhile FIRS chairman Muhammad Nami to proceed on three months of pre-retirement leave, as provisioned by Public Service Rule (PSR) 120243, with immediate effect. He said this would lead to his eventual retirement from service on December 8, 2023.
The statement said, “Hon. Zacch Adedeji is hereby appointed in acting capacity for a 90-day period before his subsequent confirmation as the substantive Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service for a term of four (4) years in the first instance.
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“Hon. Zacch Adedeji is a first-class graduate in accounting from the Obafemi Awolowo University. He most recently served the nation as the Special Adviser to the President on Revenue, following meritorious service terms as the Oyo State Commissioner of Finance and as the Executive Secretary / CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC).
“By these directives of the President, the new appointment takes immediate effect.”
Adedeji, who hails from the Iwo-Ate area of Ogo-Oluwa Local Government Area of Oyo State, recently bagged his doctorate degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
