Atiku Makes New Appointments Ahead Of 2019 Campaign Kickoff

Atiku Abubakar

The Peoples Democratic Party's presidential competitor, Atiku Abubakar, has designated three adolescents and a lady as his associates. 

The representative for the previous Vice President, Paul Ibe, uncovered this in an announcement to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. 

The new nominees are: Dr Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant (Youth and Strategy); Aliyu Bin Abbas, Special Assistant (Youth Support Groups); Phrank Shuaibu, Special Assistant (Public Communications); and Mrs Funmi Lamuye, Special Assistant (South-West). 

Adamu, 33, is an academician, oil market analyst and administration and advancement master, who hails from Katsina State, and a pioneer Global President of Commonwealth Youth Council. 

He was a worldwide master at the United Nation's Global Forum on Youth. He was likewise positioned among the best 100 most powerful youthful Nigerians by Advance Media Africa. 

34-year-old Abbas, an indigene of Borno State, is Director-General of the Atiku Cares Foundation (ACF). 

ACF is a charitable stage of the previous Vice President for philanthropic intercessions to helpless people and networks. 

"ACF has under the authority of Abbas, had extraordinary effect in conveying aid to the most helpless around the nation, particularly in the Northeast zone,'' he said. 

Ibe said Shuaibu, 43, a marketing specialist and open interchanges expert hails from Kogi. 

He likewise said Lamuye, an attorney and altruist, was the author of Prince Alade Lamuye Foundation (PALF), a vehicle she had used to affect on the lives of the widows in her state, Osun. 

"She was as of not long ago an individual from the National Assembly Service Commission,'' Ibe said. 

Ibe included that the previous Vice President would on Monday kick off his crusade in Sokoto.