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’s appointment followed the resignation of Kawu Sumaila who was in that position.
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).
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.