BREAKING: My Tenure is Not Over. I am still Statistician General- Kale

 

Kale

...Disregard false stories- Kale

The Statistician General of the Federation (SGF), Dr. Yemi Kale Tuesday dismissed story going the round that his tenure was over and said he remains the Statistician General of the Federation. 

We recalled a national daily, (The SUN) reported "Five jostle for Kale’s office as tenure ends today".

When we asked Nigerians to guess who succeeds him in lieu of the apparent lopsided appointments that has characterised the policy of the Buhari administration, not a few responses tipped a core-Northerner to get the nod.

But in aswift reaction, Dr Yemi Kale on his tweeter handle denied the story and said "no sir my tenure is not over. I am still statistician general".

Dr Yemi Kale

‏@sgyemikale

@oladeji_bayo no sir my tenure is not over. I am still statistician general

 

When his attention was brought to the story, he dismissed it with a wave of hands saying, "false stories please disregard"

What remains to be seen is those who are eager to send him packing while his tenure is still on.

 "As the tenure of the Statistician General of the Federation (SGF), Dr. Yemi Kale, ends today,  about five persons have been pencilled down for the plum job.

"They include the former President of Nigerian Statistics Association (NSA), and  a retired Director of Statistics in National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Boniface Amobi; a  Professor from the Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin, Peter Osanaiye, and a director, Department of Statistics, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Mohammed Musa Tumala.
Others are  a retired Director and Head, Public Affairs and International Relations Unit of NBS,  Mr. Henry Eteama, and a Director in charge of Macro Department in NBS, Mr. Bertram Azubuike.
A first class material, Kale who was appointed the SGF in 2011, by former President Goodluck Jonathan, to revive and inject life into the bureau, replaced Rasaq Sanusi, who was on acting capacity", the newspaper reported.

A son  of a retired Army General, Kale was born  on October 7, 1975 in Ogun State was credited with some laudable landmarks which include but not limited to the rebasing of the outdated base year of Gross Domestic Products (GDP), which made Nigeria the largest economy in Africa and the 26th largest economy in the world.

Kale’s achievements also include the finalisation of the broad national census of commercial and industrial businesses, use of CAPI device and established data release calendar. He equally contributed in the prompt release of Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI measures the monthly inflation rate in Nigeria.
He was also credited to have developed an outline data portal and interactive system with social network. He introduced users’ feedback mechanism and median statistical education/interactive system.