Breaking: El-Rufai, Appoints SSG, SA Media, Others

Kaduna Governor-elect, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai today announcement the appointment of the Secreatry to the State Government, SSG, as well as Principal Private Secretary to the Governor and Private Secretary to deputy governor-elect.

The former FCT minister also announced the appointment of his Deputy Chief of Staff Legislative affairs and Special Assistant, Media.

According to the statement, Malam Balarabe Abbas Lawal is the SSG, while Malam Salisu Suleiman is the Principal Private Secretary and Abu Musa Sheyin to serve as Private Secretary to Mr. Barnabas Yusuf Bala, the deputy governor-elect.

Meanwhile, Mr. Samuel Aruwan will serve as his Special Assistant, Media while Hon. Bala Yunusa serves as deputy Chief Of Staff (Legislative Affairs).

The statement further stated that the appointments take effect from Friday, 29 May 2015.

The statement further stated that Mr. Lawal, is a former lecturer, who  served as Chief of Staff when El-Rufai was minister of the FCT. He was a director in the Nasir El-Rufai Campaign Organization and currently chairs the Kaduna State APC Transition Committee. Lawal had previously taught in the defunct College of Advance Studies, (CAS) now Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, and at the Administrative College of Nigeria (ASCON), Badagry, Lagos.

Suleiman, the incoming PPS, holds a Ph.D in Public Policy. He has worked in the public sector and the academia. Sheyin is a former secretary and acting chairman of Jemaa Local Government, among other positions he has held in the public service.

Yunusa, a member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, worked in the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council and is serving on a sub-committee of the Transition Committee.

Aruwan worked as spokesman of the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council in the 2015 elections. He began formal media practice in Leadership Newspapers, rising to chief of its Kaduna Bureau. Until his appointment, he was heading the Kaduna bureau of the Blueprint Newspapers Limited.

However, the governor-elect has wished the appointees success in their new assignments.