The newly-appointed Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, has promised to serve the curiosity of Nigerians as captured in President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
Walson-Jack gave the reassurance on Friday, after non-public talks with Tinubu on the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“I see it as a divine task, and I had the chance to guarantee Mr. President that, by the grace of God, I can’t disappoint him,’ she stated.
The brand new HoS, who was led to the Villa by her predecessor, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, additionally stated she is going to “work collectively not solely with the everlasting secretaries but in addition with the administrators and the whole civil service to ship on the Renewed Hope Agenda.”
On her half, Yemi-Esan described the handover course of as “seamless,” including that the brand new civil service chief was “succesful” of performing the duty earlier than her.
“The President has made the handing over seamless, which could be very effectively appreciated. The incoming Head of Service has had some weeks with me studying the ropes and I’m positive by now, she is able to go and we thank Mr President for this.
“We additionally had fun chatting with Mr President, sharing his imaginative and prescient for the nation and particularly for the civil service with the incoming Head of Service, and that ought to put together her and may make her hit the bottom working in order that she will be able to obtain all that Mr President has mentioned with us.
“The newly appointed Head of Service is succesful, very clever, hardworking, skilled and empathic. I’ve little question that she is going to do the job very effectively,” stated Yemi-Esan.
On July 17, Tinubu authorised the appointment of Walson-Jack as Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, with impact from August 14, 2024.
Her appointment was introduced in a press release by Tinubu’s Particular Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, titled ‘President Tinubu appoints new head of civil service of the federation.’
She succeeds Yemi-Esan who retires from service on August 13, 2024.
Walson-Jack was appointed Federal Everlasting Secretary in 2017 and has served in a number of Ministries.
Tinubu thanked the outgoing Head of Service for her stewardship and tasked the incoming Head of Service to “discharge her duties with revolutionary aptitude, integrity, and stringent adherence to the extant guidelines and rules of the Civil Service of the Federation.”
