Senate confirms Abdullahi Bello as CCB chair

The senate has confirmed Abdullahi Bello as chair of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

Bello was confirmed as the CCB head after Neda Bernards, chair of the senate committee on ethics and public petitions, presented a report.

Bernards said the committee did not receive any petition seeking to disqualify Bello from the position.

“The committee received no petitions against the nominee and he presented himself very well,” the senator representing Edo south said.

“After thorough screening and questions, the committee is satisfied with the qualifications of the nominee as chair of the Code of Conduct Bureau.”

In March, President Bola Tinubu appointed Bello to the position.

Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, said in a statement at the time that the president believes that Bello would lead the bureau with “utmost integrity”.

“Tinubu believes that Bello will lead the bureau with utmost integrity toward the realisation of its mandate of maintaining high standards of public morality in the conduct of government business,” Ngelale had said.

“Dr. Bello is a consummate professional with more than 25 years of work experience in consulting, banking, law enforcement, financial services, and academia.”

Bello is an assistant forensic accounting and auditing professor at Northumbria University, United Kingdom.