Buhari Appoints Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu As Spokesmen

Femi Adesina and Shehu Garba

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday made his first set of appointments in his administration when he appointed three presidential aides.

The president appointed Mr Femi Adesina, the incumbent president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) as his special adviser on media and publicity while Malam Shehu Garba is now his senior special assistant on media and publicity.

These appointments were contained in statement made available to Leadership last night.

A statement by his media team also announced that the president also appointed Mallam Lawal Abdullahi Kazaure as the state chief of protocol.

Apart from his being the president of the NGE, Adesina, until his appointment, was also the managing director/editor-in-chief of The Sun newspapers.

Until his appointment, Shehu served as the director, Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council. He was also NGE president 16 years ago.

Kazaure, the new SCOP, is a career foreign service official who, until his appointment, served in Aso Rock Villa as a special assistant on presidential matters.

By these appointments, Adesina will take the position recently vacated by Dr Reuben Abati who was special adviser on media and publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, while Shehu will play the role of Dr Doyin Okupe, who was senior special assistant to Jonathan on public affairs.