Obaseki Appoints Two Special Advisers, Sends Names of 11 Commissioner-nominees to State Assembly

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has appointed two Special Advisers and forwarded the names of eleven commissioner-nominees to the Edo State House of Assembly for confirmation.

The appointment came more than 10 months after Obaseki was sworn in for a second term in office.

A statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Osarodion Ogie, announced the two Special Advisers as Crusoe Osagie, who has been appointed as Special Adviser, Media Projects and Sarah Esangbedo Ajose-Adeogun, who is Special Adviser, Strategy, Policy, Projects and Performance Management.

According to the statement, the commissioner-nominees whose names were forwarded to the Edo State House of Assembly included: Oluwole Osamudiamen Iyamu; Prof. Obehi Akoria; Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe; Osaze Ethan Uzamere and Monday Osaigbovo. Others were: Marie Edeko, Joseph Eboigbe; Moses Agbukor; Isoken Omo; Andrew Emwanta and Mrs. Otse Momoh-Omorogbe.

Osagie, a media expert, has over two decades experience in journalism and public relations practice. He served as Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy in Governor Obaseki’s first term in office.

Ajose-Adeogun, a former employee of Shell, is an accomplished professional with over two decades of multi-disciplinary experience in the oil and gas industry. During her career in the oil industry spent in Shell Petroleum Development Company, and its other subsidiaries, she was involved in various transformation initiatives that generated sustainable value across social performance, information technology and local content disciplines.

While at Shell, Sarah deployed technology applications for management of over USD2 billion investment funds and managed the Pension Fund digitisation programme, among other projects.

Shortly after he was sworn in, the governor had made just three appointment, namely, Secretary to State Government, Osarodion Ogie; Chief of Staff, Osaigbovo Iyoha; and Jimoh Ijegbai, as Deputy Chief of Staff.