President Bola Tinubu has appointed Abdullahi Usman Bello as the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) chairman.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, said the appointment is pending confirmation by the senate.
Ngelale said, “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”.
“Dr. Bello is a consummate professional with more than 25 years of work experience in consulting, banking, law enforcement, financial services, and academia,” the statement reads.
Bello is an assistant forensic accounting and auditing professor at Northumbria University, United Kingdom, his profile on LinkedIn revealed.
If his appointment is confirmed by the senate, it will lay to rest, the leadership tussle in the bureau.
In November 2023, Murtala Kankia, the acting chairman of CCB, debunked the claim that Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, a former member of the house of representatives, had been appointed to replace him at the bureau.
