PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has appointed a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, as special adviser and coordinator of Presidential Livestock Reforms.
Jega’s appointment was announced in a statement by the Special Adviser to Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga in a post on X on Friday night.
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Jega was the INEC chairman chairman between 2010 to 2015.
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Onanuga wrote, “President Bola Tinubu appoints Professor Attahiru Jega as Presidential adviser and coordinator of Presidential Livestock Reforms.”
In July, Tinubu created a new ministry called the Ministry of Livestock Development.
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The ministry was mandated to provide sector-focused solutions to address the age-long farmers-herders crisis.
This followed a recommendation by the National Livestock Reforms Committee the Ministry of Livestock Resources is to, among other deliverables, reduce the decades-long gory conflict between farmers and nomadic cattle herders nationwide.
