As competition for the post of chief of staff to the president-elect mounts, political pundits have begun profiling the perceived favorites for this very powerful position.
As Chief of Staff, he is automatically the Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and is responsible for ensuring the understanding, development and implementation of the President’s vision and agenda. He keeps a close watch on the Presidency and the entire administration to focus on the president’s priorities. It also plays a formal role in the Office of the President’s Contingency Plan, which includes the development of standard
emergency management processes.
Popular controversies on most social media mainly focus on the profile of some top politicians such as outgoing Works and Housing Minister, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila and Honourable Member representing Ikeja -Federal Constituency, Chief James Faleke.
These eminent and respected political giants are well-known and well-known products of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Political Academy and as such it is very convenient to theorize almost correctly.
However, in this extraordinary era of renewed hope, many critical factors and unpredictable indicators will indeed play a fundamental role in making such a delicate national decision.
The political calculations that have been presented publicly up to now cannot in fact serve as a basis of the chpice of who is given the position of the Chief of Staff to the President. However, the name accompanying the cap is intended to belong to someone currently holding the same position in Lagos State, the Centre of Excellence.
This is Chief Tayo Akinmade Ayinde.
Ayinde has been holding sway as Chief of Staff to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu since the beginning of his first term as Governor. It is one of the invisible pillars of the Lagos government’s evolutionary success. A leader par excellence, full of diligence, reliability, instinct and credible actions to steer the affairs of the state in the right direction and above all humility.
Undoubtedly, the President-elect needs the strategic choice of a man dressed to tell achievements in public and private life. You can find it in Tayo Ayinde, a Chartered Accountant, Expert in security management including investigations, operational duties and guards.
As Chief Security Officer to the then Governor of Lagos, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu (now President-elect), he carried out this task with extraordinary zeal and passion.
For a man destined by destiny to be at the top, working with a political giant of Tinubu’s caliber might have been predictable when he saw the big picture, and NOW IS THE TIME.
