Visually Challenged appointed as Buhari’s Special Assistant

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Visually Challenged appointed as Buhari’s Special Assistant

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Visually Challenged appointed as Buhari’s Special AssistantA visually challenged person, Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli, has been appointed by President Muhammad Buhari as his Senior Special Assistant (SSA). The visually impaired Ankeli will be in charge of dealing with persons living with disabilities. The President, in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, said “The SSA was a former campaigner and also 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. “He led a team that successfully mobilized a large number of the more than 24 million disabled persons in the country to support the APC candidate and his running mate in the 2015 presidential election campaign. 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.”

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