Until his appointment, Mr. Kifasi, a former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.
Born on January 1, 1956, Mr. Kifasi was a member of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; a non-Executive Director of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, and an Alternate Governor of Islamic Development Bank.
An indigene of Taraba State, Mr. Kifasi, a chartered accountant and lawyer, was one of three Permanent Secretaries from the country’s North-East geo-political zone shortlisted to succeed Bukar Aji, who is set to retire from service next Wednesday.
Mr. Aji, who took over from the former HOCSF, Isa Sali, on March 21, 2013, would be leaving office after about 17 months in office.
In line with the zoning arrangement by the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, appointment of new HOCSF, considered one of the key pillars of government in the country, was ceded to the zone, consisting Taraba, Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe states.
Those knowledgeable with the arrangement said with President from the South-South geo-political zone; Senate President (North Central); Speaker, House of Representatives (North West); Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission (South West); and Secretary of the Government of the Federation, SGF(South East), the HOCSF was zoned to the North-East for structural balance.
With the arrangement, apart from Mr. Kifasi, two other names were identified as candidates in the run-up to the appointment. They included Umar Faruk, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources, from Bauchi State, and his counterpart in charge of Ecological Funds Office in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sheikh Musa, from Borno State. 4
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