President Bola Tinubu former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose. Photo credit: Imran Muhammed
Isaac Fayose has told his elder brother, Ayo Fayose, to hand off his newly announced Rural Electrification Agency chairmanship to his son. He said the former Ekiti State governor was too politically significant for such a role.
The younger Fayose made the remark in a video on his Instagram page on Monday, reacting to the Presidency’s announcement that his brother had been appointed chairman of the REA board alongside 25 others named into the leadership of 10 federal agencies and commissions.
According to a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Fayose would chair the board alongside Ahmadu Abubakar and Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta as non-executive directors, with the agency’s incumbent Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors retained.
Isaac opened his post by contrasting the chairmanship with more senior positions he believed his brother deserved, saying, “They said they gave my brother a DG, DG, not a minister, not ambassador.”
