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<\/p>\nA statement issued and signed by his media aide, Mr. Samuel Aruwan disclosed that Malam Nasir El-Rufai has appointed her as Senior Adviser-Counsellor, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n
She is currently the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency.<\/p>\n
In the new function, according to the statement, Dr. Balarabe is expected to work from Government House, overseeing key agencies reporting to the Governor like the State Pensions Board, KADGIS and KASUPDA, advising the governor on matters of human capital development, and understudying him and the Deputy Governor in all aspects of governance.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Aruwan, \u201cAs Senior Adviser-Counsellor, she will be at the heart of government, attending meetings of the State Executive and Security Councils.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new responsibility places her within the second echelon of the government, next to the two elected leaders of the executive branch. She will join other senior officials to drive the policy and governance aspirations of the government in the remaining crucial months of the current mandate.\u201d Aruwan further said<\/p>\n
His words: \u201cThe second echelon of the Kaduna State Government comprises of senior officials who are copied recipients of all correspondence from the governor, as part of Governor Nasir El-Rufai\u2019s strategy to ensure that not just him and the Deputy Governor are abreast of all issues and decisions the government is dealing with. \u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese senior officials act as the principal advisers to the governor, and also function as implementors and monitors of the governance agenda of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n
He further explained that, in her new role, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe will attend all meetings and activities in the Governor\u2019s office, and perform other assigned responsibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201d Dr. Hadiza Balarabe is the first woman to join the second echelon since Hadiza Bala-Usman, Governor El-Rufai\u2019s first chief of staff, left to take up the leadership of the Nigerian Ports Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new appointment is expected to further expose this accomplished medical doctor and public health expert to the entire workings of the Kaduna State Government.\u201d He further said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In order to be more acquainted and have wider knowledge on how governance looks like, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, the running mate to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai in the 2019 elections, has been given a fresh appointment. A statement issued and signed by his media aide, Mr. Samuel Aruwan disclosed that Malam Nasir El-Rufai has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}