The Kaduna State Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, ahead of his inauguration on Friday, has announced the appointment of Mallam Balarabe Abbas-Lawal as the Secretary to the Government of the state. Continue..
Abbas-Lawal, a former Chief of Staff to El-Rufai when he was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, was the Chairman, Kaduna APC Transition Committee.
El-Rufai, in a statement he personally signed in Kaduna on Wednesday, also named Mallam Salisu Suleiman as his Principal Private Secretary, while Mr. Abu Musa Sheyin would serve as Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor-elect, Mr. Barnabas Yusuf Bala.
Also, the Governor-elect announced the appointment of Mr. Bala Yunusa as the Deputy Chief of Staff (Legislative Affairs) while Mr. Samuel Aruwan would serve as Special Assistant on Media.
Aruwan worked as the spokesman for the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council in the 2015 elections. He began his journalism career with the Leadership Newspapers. Until his appointment, he was the Kaduna Bureau Chief of the Blueprint Newspapers Limited.
The new SSG was a former lecturer and had also served as a director in the Nasir el-Rufai Campaign Organisation.
Lawal had taught at the defunct College of Advanced Studies now Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria in Kaduna State and at the Administrative College of Nigeria, Badagry, Lagos State.
The new PPS holds a Ph.D in Public Policy. Suleiman worked in the public sector and the academia.
Sheyin, the Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor-elect was a former secretary and acting chairman of Jemaa Local Government Area of the state.
Yunusa, a Deputy Chief of Staff(Legislative Affairs) was a member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly. He worked in the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council and is serving on a sub-committee of the Transition Committee.
According to the statement, the appointments take effect as from Friday, May 29.
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