Yemisi Izuora
President Muhammad Buhari, has approved the appointment of Engr Idowu Oyebanjo as the Chief Technical Officer for the FGN Power Company in charge of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) handling the Siemens’ deal with Nigeria.
Oyebanjo while appreciating the gesture acknowledged that the appointment was based on merit having devoted life to writing and proffering solutions to the challenges in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI.
“Without knowing anyone, and without lobbying for any position, I received my second appointment as a government official purely on merit. The first was when I was recruited as a graduate trainee into NNPC some 18 years ago based on merit.
The journey towards this second appointment started from before the privatization of the electricity supply industry. I chose to focus on power systems” he said.
Oyebanjo has made several contributions through publications, submission of technical papers, work committees etc to finding solutions to the challenges in the sector.
Oyebanjo is a UK chartered Power System Engineer with a bias in Power Systems Protection. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Lagos and Master from University of Manchester, UK.
He has experience in the Management of Energy System and have worked in the Oil, Gas and Power Sectors of the Energy Industry which he considers a rare combination of talent