{"id":14288,"date":"2023-07-12T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:07:07","slug":"president-tinubu-makes-20-new-political-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14288","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu Makes 20 New Political Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed 20 new aides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new appointments are senior special assistants (SSAs), personal assistants (PAs), personal physician and photographers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Veteran journalist, Tunde Rahman, was appointed as SSA on Media, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz as SSA on Print Media and Segun Dada, made the list as Special Assistant on Social Media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reacting to the appointment on his official Twitter handle, Dada stated that his appointment is not only predicated on the president\u2019s belief on the power of digital town square but also his commitment to transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dada, further called on Nigerian youths to rally support for Tinubu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is my belief that my appointment not only reflects the President\u2019s acknowledgement of the power of the \u2018digital town square\u2019 and its crucial role in shaping public opinion, but also his commitment to fostering transparency, accountability and the attainment of an informed and engaged citizenry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">See Full List:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new appointees include Tunde Rahman, who has been designated SSA (Media); Abdulaziz Abdulaziz is SSA on Print Media, the SSA Political will be handled by Ibrahim Masari, Adekunle Tinubu is Personal Physician, Damilotun Aderemi is Senior Special Assistant (Private Secretary) and Toyin Subair \u2013 Senior Special Assistant (Domestic).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senior Special Assistant (Digital\/New Media) went to O\u2019tega Ogra, Demola Oshodi is Senior Special Assistant (Protocol); Tope Ajayi \u2013 Senior Special Assistant (Media &amp; Public Affairs); Yetunde Sekoni \u2013 Senior Special Assistant; Motunrayo Jinadu \u2013 Senior Special Assistant; Segun Dada \u2013 Special Assistant (Social Media); and Paul Adekanye \u2013 Special Assistant (Logistics).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also, on the list are Friday Soton as Special Assistant (Housekeeping); Special Assistant (Catering) is Shitta-Bey Akande, Nosa Asemota as Special Assistant (Visual Communication) Personal Photographer and Kamal Yusuf will be the Personal Assistant for Special Duties to the president.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed 20 new aides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7244,7243],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pbat","tag-political-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14289,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}