A former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has been picked as the new spokesperson of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress, APC.
Mr. Abdullahi succeeds Lai Mohammed who was appointed Minister of Information by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Both are from Kwara State.
Mr. Abdullahi was nominated at a meeting of the North Central zone of the APC, which held at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja, on Thursday.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to name a new spokesman for the party on Thursday.
According to the PUNCH, former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, is being tipped for the role.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is also from Kwara as Abdullahi, resigned from the post to take up appointment as Minister of Information and National Orientation more than a year ago.
The embattled Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Timi Frank, tried but failed to act in that capacity.
He has now taken the party to court, after his suspension was announced.
Abdullahi is expected to be confirmed as the new spokesman, at a mini-convention at the New Chelsea Hotel in Abuja at 11am.
The Borno Police Command said on Monday that it had placed a self-proclaimed former spokesperson of the Boko Haram sect, Ali Konduga, under psychiatric investigation.
This, the police said, followed Mr. Konduga’s display of abnormal behaviour since his arrest last week.
Victor Isuku, the spokesman of the command, said this in a statement he issued in Maiduguri.
Mr. Isuku said that Konduga was arrested after a complaint by one Muhammadu Kala.
“On September 14, one Muhammadu Kala lodged a complaint at the GRA Police Station, Maiduguri, that Mallam Ali konduga of Gwange ward had trespassed into the premises of the house of Senator Muhammed Ndume.
“The DPO led a team of policemen to arrest the trespasser where he had gone to receive treatment for injuries he sustained as a result of a mob action,” Isuku said.
The police spokesman said that investigation, however, revealed that the suspect was of unsound mind.
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