President Muhammadu Buhari on friday appointed Abubakar Garba as the new Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

The appointment was announced in a statement posted on the official twitter handle of the commission.

According to the statement, A former Minister of State for Defence, Ademola Seriki, was also appointed as the Chairman of the Board of the Commission.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, while presenting letter of appointment to the new RG, said the formation of the new board had ended the perennial acrimony regarding leadership of the Commission.

The minister implored all directors and the staff of the Commission to support the ideas and visions of the new Registrar-General in order to move the agency forward.

The appointment of the new Registrar-General is coming almost two weeks the former Registrar General, Azuka Azinge, was directed “to step aside” after she was accused of false declaration of assets.

Mrs Azinge was arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on December 23 last year on an 11-count charge of false declaration of assets.
She was also accused of receiving unauthorised allowances while in office.

Mr Abubakar pledged his unflinching support and loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and pledged to be fair to all to enable his management to transform the Commission to a world-class institution.
“We promise to fulfill the confidence reposed on us by the government.”

Mr Garba, who hails from Bauchi State, is a lawyer. He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989.

He joined the CAC in April 2004 as a principal manager, compliance and later became a director in January 2016.

Between August 2017 and October 2017, Mr Garba was the special adviser to the former Registrar-General.