Last Minute Shuffle - Peter Obi SEC Chairman, GEJ sacks NHIS boss

What is likened to a last minute shuffle happened as barely one month before handing over power, President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.

Mr. Obi’s appointment was contained in a statement released Tuesday by the Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to the President, Reuben Abati.

The former governor had defected from the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, shortly after he left office in 2014. The president also confirmed the appointment of Mounir Haliru Gwarzo as the director-general of SEC.

The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Femi Thomas, was however, not lucky as he was sacked by the president.