President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Garba Abubakar as the substantive Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC.
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Until his appointment, Mr Abubakar is the Director, Compliance at the commission.
This was contained in a letter dated the 7th day of January, 2020, with reference number: SH/COS/42/3/A/507, and signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the President, Abba Kyari.
In the letter which was addressed to the Honorable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, and the Secretary to the Government, sighted by TheNigerialawyer (TNL), it was stated that the tenure of the appointments should be in line with the provisions of the Company and Allied Matters Act.
TheNigerialawyer recalls that the based the CCT chairman, Justice Danladi Umar had earlier ordered that Lady Azuka step aside as Acting Registrar General of the CAC, pending the hearing and determination of the matter before it.
TNL also recalls that Saratu Shafii has been earlier asked to replace Lady Azinge before this current appointment.
Abubakar joined CAC in April 2004 as a Principal Manager Compliance and became a director in January 2016.
Between August 2017 and October 2017, Abubakar was the Special Adviser to the former Registrar-General.
Prior to joining CAC, he worked with the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, formerly National Provident Fund, as Compliance Officer between 1991 and 1993.
Abubakar worked at NICON Insurance between June 1995 and December 1997.
He is a member Governing Council of the Nigerian Bar Association on Business Law from March 2017 till date.
He is a member of Inter-Agency Committee Against Money Laundering and Terrorists Financing from 2007 till date and CAC focal on Open Government Partnership.
Abubakar is also a member, in-house committee on the review of the Companies and Allied Matters Matters Act (CAMA), among others.
He is married, hails from Bauchi State, born on Oct. 7, 1966.
Abubakar is a graduate of Law from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was called to the Nigeria Bar in 1989.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal had on Dec. 24, ordered the suspension of the Acting Registrar-General of the commission, Ms Azuka Azinge, for allegedly not declaring her assets.
On Dec. 31, the Federal Government appointed Hajiya Saratu Shafii as the Acting Registrar-General of the Commission.
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