{"id":2133,"date":"2019-01-10T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:15:47","slug":"buhari-appoints-new-ssa-to-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-appoints-new-ssa-to-national-assembly","title":{"rendered":"Buhari appoints new SSA to National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub as the new Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CJPD84aC5N8CFUOR3god3IcBBw\">\n<p>Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Adesina said El-Yakub\u2019s appointment followed the resignation of Kawu Sumaila who was in that position.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CJTD84aC5N8CFUOR3god3IcBBw\">\n<p>Sumaila, who was appointed in August 2015, resigned to contest for the House of Representatives member for Sumaila\/Takai Federal Constituency in Kano State under the the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>His successor, El-Yakub, an APC stalwart from Kano State, was a member of the House of Representatives in 1998 and from 2003 to 2007 representing Kano Municipal Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub as the new Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives). Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday Adesina said El-Yakub\u2019s appointment followed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[287,97],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-assembly","tag-buhari"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari appoints new SSA to National Assembly - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-appoints-new-ssa-to-national-assembly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari appoints new SSA to National Assembly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub as the new Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives). 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