The director and co-founder of BudgIT, Mr Seun Onigbinde, has been appointed by the Federal Government as a technical adviser at Ministry of Budget and National Planning.
Onigbinde is one of the long-term critics of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The data analyst disclosed this through his Medium account on Friday, as there are reports that his Twitter account has been deactivated.
He said, “Friends, I have accepted to take up an advisory role underwritten by an international development agency for an initial period of six months.
“I believe that to guard the reputation of BudgIT, I need to take an operational break and make my new position public.”
“In a technical advisory role, I shall be supporting the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba, along the issues of budget reform, development planning, and revenue growth.
“It is similar to a task Joseph Agunbiade (my BudgIT co-founder) and I worked on in 2013–14, under the DFID-FEPAR program for the National Assembly Budget and Research Office,” Onigbinde added.
