Tinubu nominates Melvin Ayogu to CBN board, seeks senate confirmation

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Melvin Ayogu to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and has requested senate confirmation for the appointment.

Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to Tinubu on information and strategy, announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Onanuga said Tinubu also sought senate confirmation for Nwakuche Ndidi as controller-general of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOS).

He said the requests, conveyed in letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, were read during Tuesday’s plenary.

Tinubu had previously nominated Robert Agbide, Ado Wanga, Murtala Sagaley, Urom Eke, and Olayinka Aliyu to the CBN board in February 2024.

However, on February 29, 2024, the senate confirmed four people as members of the board of the CBN after Eke rejected the offer, citing “conflict of interest”.

Tinubu replaced Eke with Ruby Onwudiwe on March 13, 2024, however, a day after, reports circulated that the president withdrew her nomination over political affiliation with Labour Party, an opposition of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the current ruling party.

The decision reportedly followed pressure mounted on the president by members of the APC, as Onwudiwe publicly supported Peter Obi, who contested on the LP platform against Tinubu, at the 2023 presidential elections.