President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a visually
impaired man, Dr. Samuel Ankeli, as his Senior Special
Assistant.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant
on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President has
saddled Ankeli with the responsibility of dealing with
persons living with disability on his behalf.
Shehu said Ankeli headed the Directorate of Persons
with Disability at the Buhari/Osinbajo All Progressives
Congress presidential campaign headquarters, the first
of any such department in a political party in Nigeria.
He added that the new presidential aide led a team that
successfully mobilised a large number of the more than
24 million disabled persons in the country to support
the All Progressives Congress candidate and his running
mate in the 2015 presidential election campaign.
Ankeli, who hails from Benue State, studied veterinary
medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He worked with the Benue State government before
quitting and focusing on his activist role in the
promotion of the wellbeing of the blind and people with
all kinds of disability.
Ankeli is married with children.
0 comments:
Post a Comment