Amid Sustained Attacks by Opposition, Tinubu Appoints Fela Durotoye, 4 Others, to Boosts Media Team

By Peace Edet

Perhaps to counterbalance the storm of negative publicity generated by persistent attacks from the opposition, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Monday, buoyed his media team with five new appointments.

A release by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, said the new appointees, comprising four men and one woman, will serve in the Office of the President under the Media and Publicity Directorate.

The appointments, according to Ngelale, were “with full respect for the tenets of Nigeria’s federal character principle and the supremacy of merit.”

The new appointees are:

(1) Mr. Fela Durotoye (Senior Special Assistant to the President — National Values & Social Justice)

(2) Mr. Fredrick Nwabufo (Senior Special Assistant to the President — Public Engagement)

(3) Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe (Senior Special Assistant to the President — Strategic Communications)

(4) Mr. Aliyu Audu (Special Assistant to the President — Public Affairs)

(5) Mr. Francis Adah Abah (Personal Assistant to the President — Special Duties)

Mrs. Akhigbe, Ngelale further informed, will also double as the Communications Adviser to the President of the ECOWAS Commission.

Ngelale said; “The President tasks all new appointees who are serving in the Media & Publicity directorate to uphold the highest standards of decorum and decency in their engagements with all members of the public as they advance the President’s determined bid to renew the hope of Nigerians in a restructured economy and unified society that caters sufficiently to the needs of all, regardless of any differences.”