APC National Chairman Appoints Ex-Kano Information Commissioner As Chief of Staff

APC National Chairman Appoints Ex-Kano Information Commissioner As Chief of Staff 

Abba Dukawa

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has appointed Malam Muhammadu Garba, as his chief of staff.

The new chief of staff is a seasoning journalists begins journalism career in 1989 with Triumph Publishing Company Limited, Kano as a reporter and served in various states of the federation as correspondent. 

He later grew in his career to serve as Sub-Editor, Chief Sub-Editor, Group News Editor, and Deputy Editor. Comrade Garba  also served as a member of Editorial Board of many National Newspapers. Muhammed Garba has held various responsibilities that include Press Secretary to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1993 and subsequently Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor of Kano State Abdullahi Umar Ganduje between 1999 and 2003 and he  is the immediate past commissioner of Information and Home Affairs in Kano. He served in  Ganduje’s administration in Kano for eight years. 

Comrade Muhammad Garba was also the former National Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), President of West African Journalists Association (WAJA) who was elected at Bamako, Mali and he was the President of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) who was elected at Casablanca, Morocco 2009. Muhammad is Member of the Steering Committee of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) who was elected at Dublin, Ireland.

The appointment was announced in a statement on Tuesday by one of Mr Ganduje’s media aides, Abubakar Ibrahim.