Meet The Visually Challenged Man Buhari Appoints as Special Assistant

President Buhari has appointed a visually
impaired man, Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode

Ankeli as his Senior Special Assistant on
matters concerning disabled people.

Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on Media
and Publicity, Shehu Garba, announced this in
a statement released today Feb. 22nd.
Shehu stated that Ankeli had headed the
Directorate of Persons with Disability at the
Buhari/Osinbajo APC Presidential Campaign
Headquarters, “the first of any such
department in a political party in Nigeria”.

“Dr Ankeli hails from Benue State. He went to
school in Giwa, near Zaria and Kaduna before
reading veterinary medicine at the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria.

He worked with the Benue State government
before quitting to give time to his activist role
in the promotion of the wellbeing of the blind
and people with all kinds of disability.

He leads a very active religious and sporting
life. He is married and has children”the
statement read

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