The Special Assistant to the President on Domestic and Social Events, Office of the First Lady, Zainab Kazeem has been sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari with immediate effect.
Reasons for her sack could not be confirmed immediately, but in her placement, a seasoned journalist and ex-member of the House of Representatives in the 8th National Assembly, Hon. Muhammad Sani Zorro, has been appointed as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs and Strategy, Office of the First Lady.
A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Saturday said the new appointee is to resume work immediately.
Garba said, at the instance of the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, “the President also approved the immediate redeployment of three of the political appointees in her office to the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, pending their assignment to some other government departments or agencies.”
Those affected by the redeployment are: Dr. Mohammed Kamal Abdulrahman, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Health and Development Partners and Personal Physician to the First Lady; Hadi Uba, Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Wole Aboderin, Special Assistant to the President on Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs.
“Also approved with effect from 11th February is the disengagement of Zainab Kazeem, the Special Assistant to the President on Domestic and Social Events, Office of the First Lady,” it said.
Zorro has a long years of media practice, a unionist, publisher and an activist.
“He was at various times President, Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, West African Journalists Association (WAJA) and the Federation of African Journalists, FAJ.
