President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed as Senior Special Assistant, a man, Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli, who mobilized more than 24 million disabled persons in the country to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and his running mate in the 2015 presidential election campaign.
Dr. Inalegwu, who is visually impaired, would be responsible for advising the President on matters concerning persons living with disability.
The new Senior Special Assistant headed the Directorate of Persons With Disability at the Buhari/Osinbajo APC presidential campaign headquarters, the first of any such department in a political party in Nigeria.
He hails from Benue State. He went to school in Giwa, near Zaria and Kaduna before reading veterinary medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He worked with the Benue State government before quitting to give time to his activist role in the promotion of the well being of the blind and people with all kinds of disability.
He leads a very active religious and sporting life.
He is married and has children. [myad]
