{"id":64836,"date":"2022-05-15T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/chief-of-staff-resignation-ganduje-directs-head-of-service-to-take-up-position"},"modified":"2022-05-15T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:59:44","slug":"chief-of-staff-resignation-ganduje-directs-head-of-service-to-take-up-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chief-of-staff-resignation-ganduje-directs-head-of-service-to-take-up-position","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Staff resignation: Ganduje directs Head of Service to take up position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has directed the State\u2019s Head of Civil Service, Usman Bala to oversee the Office of the Chief of Staff to the Governor with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The State Chief of Staff, Ali Bukar Makoda, had resigned his position after decamping from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ganduje in a statement issued by the commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, indicated that the supervision would be pending the appointment of a substantive Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, the statement added, expressed the hope that there would be effective supervision and coordination by the Head of Service, having served in the office before.<\/p>\n<p>Usman Bala was the State Chief of Staff during the first tenure of Governor Ganduje, but was sacked and appointed a Permanent Secretary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has directed the State\u2019s Head of Civil Service, Usman Bala to oversee the Office of the Chief of Staff to the Governor with immediate effect. The State Chief of Staff, Ali Bukar Makoda, had resigned his position after decamping from the ruling All Progressives Congress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,7470,1022,254],"class_list":["post-64836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-chief-of-staff-resignation","tag-ganduje","tag-nigeria"],"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>Chief of Staff resignation: Ganduje directs Head of Service to take up position - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta 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