{"id":66447,"date":"2018-12-03T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66447"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:43:40","slug":"2019-presidency-atiku-makes-3-new-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66447","title":{"rendered":"2019 presidency: Atiku makes 3 new appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The presidebtial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has appointed three youths and a woman as his aides.<\/p>\n

Atiku\u2019s pokesperson, Paul Ibe, disclosed this in a statement to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The new appointees of the former Vice President are: Dr Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant (Youth and Strategy); Aliyu Bin Abbas, Special Assistant (Youth Support Groups); Phrank Shuaibu, Special Assistant (Public Communications); and Mrs Funmi Lamuye, Special Assistant (South-West).<\/p>\n

33-year-old Adamu is an academician, petroleum economist and leadership and development expert, who hails from Katsina State, and a pioneer Global President of Commonwealth Youth Council.<\/p>\n

He was an international expert at the United Nation\u2019s Global Forum on Youth. He was also ranked among the top 100 most influential young Nigerians by Advance Media Africa.<\/p>\n

34-year-old Abbas, an indigene of Borno State, is Director-General of the Atiku Cares Foundation (ACF).<\/p>\n

ACF is a philanthropic platform of the former Vice President for humanitarian interventions to vulnerable persons and communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cACF has under the leadership of Abbas, made great impact in bringing succor to the most vulnerable around the country, especially in the Northeast zone,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Ibe said Shuaibu, 43, a publicist and public communications consultant hails from Kogi.<\/p>\n

He also said Lamuye, a lawyer and philanthropist, was the founder of Prince Alade Lamuye Foundation (PALF), a vehicle she had used to impact on the lives of the widows in her state, Osun.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was until recently a member of the National Assembly Service Commission,\u2019\u2019 Ibe said.<\/p>\n

Ibe also said the former Vice President would on Monday kick off his campaign in Sokoto.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presidebtial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has appointed three youths and a woman as his aides. Atiku\u2019s pokesperson, Paul Ibe, disclosed this in a statement to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. The new appointees of the former Vice President are: Dr Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant (Youth and Strategy); Aliyu Bin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8767,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4149,1048,58],"class_list":["post-66447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447","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=66447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}