The Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Federal Ministry of Finance, Okokon Udo has taken over as the Permanent Secretary, Finance, following the retirement of Mr. Aliyu Ahmed.
Ahmed who joined civil service in 1993 as a lecturer at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto attributed the successes he achieved in the Ministry to the cooperation and support enjoyed by the management staff of the Ministry.
Commenting on a cordial relationship with his successor Ahmed said “for quite a long time we worked together and had a very friendly relationship”.
Ahmed described his successor as “very competent, widely experienced in the job and therefore he would deliver positively and move the Ministry to greater heights”.
On the management staff of the ministry, Ahmed who left the service when he clocked sixty years noted that he “enjoyed great support and friendship from all that I have worked with without which I would not have achieved such success.”
He added, “I am grateful to God for the opportunity to serve and also exiting peacefully from the Nigerian Civil Service”.
Udo, who has taken over as the new Permanent Secretary Finance in his opening remarks said that Ahmed had contributed immensely to the growth and development of the ministry and the public service at large, as such, the system needed to tap from his wealth of experience.
He described Ahmed as an objectivity, dogged, fearless and de-tribalized person whose characters and attributes are worthy of emulation.
