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President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the appointment of Mr Sule Abdulaziz as the substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with effect from April 4 2022.
TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, said in a statement in Abuja that , until his confirmation, Abdulaziz had been the company’s Acting Managing Director since May 19, 2020.
Abdulaziz was the General Manager (Projects) at the company’s headquarters before becoming the acting managing director, according to Mbah.
In her words, “He was also in charge of coordination and supervision of equipment maintenance and repairs, transmission network reliability, security and expansion, inventory and stock management among others.”
Mbah said that Abdulaziz had been responsible for the overall supervision of the affairs of the company including transmission projects, transmission network operations and maintenance, system operations.
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Other responsibilities he carried out according to her are market administration, human resources management and chief accounting officer.
“Under his watch as the acting managing director, TCN made milestone achievements in projects execution and delivery, stable grid management, and human resources management that optimised personnel performance and productivity.
“Working with an executive management consisting of four Executive Directors, Abdulaziz embarked on initiatives and execution that significantly transformed TCN from a faltering successor company in the post-privatisation era to a viable national and sub-regional transmission company,” she added.
According to Mbah, Abdulaziz also distinguished himself as a good human resources manager, who brought industrial unity to TCN and maintained a non-interference and non-divisive approach in dealing with labor unions and union issues.
She added that the TCN CEO boosted capacity development by investing strategically in staff training and retraining to close skills gaps, among other things.
