The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has announced the appointment of his former Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, as his new Special Assistant on Digital Communications.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, had made the confirmation of this appointment in a letter of appointment which had been addressed to Ahmad, dated July 20, 2022. Mustapha had also claimed that the appointment had actually taken effect from July 19, 2022.
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Ahmad had resigned his previous position as Personal Assistant to the President in line with the presidential directive which had urged all the political office holders who had been wishing to contest elective office to resign.
The presidential media aide lost his bid to secure the ticket of the All Progressives Congress at the party’s primaries for Gaya, Ajingi, Albasu Federal Constituency. Ahmad had also; frowned at the way and manner the party’s primary was conducted, saying it was fraught with fraud.
The presidential social media handler is believed to be the only presidential aide ‘recalled’ by the president since the conclusion of the APC primaries.
All the cabinet ministers and presidential aides except Ahmad, who resigned to participate in the APC primaries but failed to secure the party tickets had since been replaced by the president.
In another report, Femi Adesina who is the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity has come out to openly accuse most Nigerians of blaming his principal for their shortfalls in everything in life.
Adesina had also bemoaned that some of the Nigerians are also blaming President Buhari for all the challenges, including poor performance in bed.
He said Nigerians blame Buhari because “resentment is their daily food and drink.”
Adesina disclosed this in his weekly article shared on his Facebook titled, ‘I Still Believe In Buhari.’
He lamented that Nigerians see the president as their “fall guy.”