POLITICS:-ECONOMIC CRISIS; Buhari Finally Constitute Economic Team(see list)

The Presidency has disclosed that President
Muhammadu Buhari has an economic
management team.

SOURCE:-Oluniyi Hisamotu | Topup9ja Staff

The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President
on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande,
disclosed this in a telephone interview with our
correspondent(Punch) 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.