President Muhammadu Buhari has effected some changes in the political appointees of of the First Lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari.
A statement today, February 12 by the senior special assistant to the President on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu said that the president has sacked the Special Assistant to the President on Domestic and Social Events, Office of the First Lady, Zainab Kazeem, with effect from yesterday, February 11.
The statement said that Buhari redeployed three of the political appointees in her office to the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), pending their assignment to some other government departments or agencies.
Those affected by the redeployment are Dr. Mohammed Kamal Abdulrahman, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Health and Development Partners and Personal Physician to the First Lady; Hadi Uba, Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Wole Aboderin, Special Assistant to the President on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
Those who are newly appointed, include Muhammad Sani Zorro, a journalist, a politician and former lawmaker as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs and Strategy, Office of the First Lady.
Sani Zorro was at various times President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), West African Journalists Association (WAJA) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ).
He was in the House of Representatives where he chaired the committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Initiatives on North East.
Also appointed, according to the statement, are A’isha Rimi, a law graduate of the University of Buckingham in England as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Legal Matters, Office of the First Lady and Dr. Zabah Muhammad Jawa as Personal Physician to the First Lady.
While A’isha is a resourceful administrative executive and a founding partner at Africa Law Practice, a commercial law firm in Nigeria, Dr. Jawa is a Senior Consultant in Nuclear medicine and European Certified in Nuclear Medicine.
He is a Fellow of the College of Radiologists of Nigeria and Fellow of the South African College of Nuclear Physicians.
