Joe Biden, the President-elect of the United States of
America, has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet.
The President-elect made announcement when he named
additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel.
Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in
the US, and served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the
President Barrack Obama administration.
She, alongside other lawyers of the Office of White House
Counsel will be advising the President, the executive office of the president,
and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the president and the
White House.
A statement on the Biden-Harris transition website said that
Badejo was general counsel of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus
crisis which was chaired by James Clyburn, House Majority Whip.
“Her prior government service includes serving as Counsel
for policy to the Assistant Attorney-General in the Civil Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice, Ethics Counsel at the White House Counsel’s Office and
Attorney Advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States during
the Obama-Biden administration,” the statement read.
Biden will become the 46th President of the United States
after his swearing-in slated for January 20, 2021
He defeated the incumbent President Donald Trump in the
November 3 presidential election after scoring over 300 electoral college votes
Although Trump rejected the election result claiming
electoral fraud, he could not provide proofs and has lost numerous cases he
filed in court.
President Trump was however, impeached on Wednesday for the
second time having been accused of inciting his supporters to launch a deadly
attack on US Capitol In a final push to stop the confirmation of Biden as the
winner of the election by the Congress.
Biden had earlier In December 2020 appointed a
Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo, a Ni, a member of Biden’s COVID-19 response
team.
Before then, Nigerian-born Adewale Adeyemo has been
appointed as deputy secretary of the treasury department.
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