5 Facts About Senior Special Assistant On Media And Publicity In The Presidency

Laolu Akande was approved today as the Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) in the Presidency. See the most interesting facts about the new PMB’s appointee.

Akande is the most westernised person in Buhari’s team to this date.

1. Laolu Akande is a prominent journalist who worked considerable amount of time in the US. Laolu Akande worked as a journalist in Nigeria between 1989 and 1998.

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2. He was forced to move to the US in 1998 after he was threatened by Sani Abacha’s subordinates over critique of the dictator’s regime.

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3. As a journalist in the US-based Nigerian diaspora, he made several exclusive interviews with such prominent persons as Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, billionaires Bill Gates and Donald Trump, General Colin Powell, then-president of the US, George Bush and several African leaders and presidents.

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4. Laolu Akande became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in Long Island, New York.

5. He is married with two children.

A former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande, has been appointed as the Senior Special Assistant to lead the media and communication unit of the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo two months ago.

Today Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Rahman Adeola Ipaye as Deputy Chief of Staff and Mr. Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) in the Presidency.

 

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