Buhari renews appointment of Akabueze as DG budget office

President Muhammadu Buhari, has renewed the appointment of Mr Ben Akabueze as the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation.

This is contained in a statement by Mr Yunusa Abdullahi, Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed.

Mr Akabueze was first appointed as a Special Adviser on Planning to the President on fifteenth February, 2016, but was later re-deployed and appointed as Director-General of the Budget Office on tenth June, 2016.

His four-year tenure will expire on tenth June, 2020, but it has been extended by another four years with the recent directive from the President.