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Governor-elect of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday announced that Malam Balarabe Abbas-Lawal has been appointed the Secretary to the State Government for his administration.
Abbas-Lawal served as Chief of Staff when El-Rufai was Minister of Federal Capital Territory. He has also served as the Chairman for the Transition Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kaduna.
According to a statement El-Rufai released on Wednesday, Malam Salisu Suleiman will serve in the administration as his Principal Private Secretary, while Mr. Abu Sheyin will serve as Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor-elect, Mr. Barnabas Bala.
El-Rufai also announced the appointment of Mr. Bala Yunusa as Deputy Chief of Staff (Legislative Affairs) while Mr. Samuel Aruwan will serve as Special Assistant on Media to the Governor.
Aruwan worked as spokesman for the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council in the 2015 elections.
He began his journalism career at Leadership Newspapers. He worked as the Kaduna Bureau Chief of the Blueprint Newspapers Limited until his appointment,
The new SSG, a former lecturer, served as the Chief of Staff when El-Rufai was minister of the FCT.
He was also a director in the Nasir El-Rufai Campaign Organisation.
Lawal had taught at the defunct College of Advance Studies (now Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic), Zaria in Kaduna State and at the Administrative College of Nigeria, Badagry, Lagos State.
The new PPS holds a Ph.D in Public Policy.
Suleiman worked in the public sector and the academia.
Sheyin, the Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor-elect, is a former Secretary and Acting Chairman of Jemaa Local Government.
Yunusa, a Deputy Chief of Staff(Legislative Affairs) is a member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly.
He worked in the Kaduna State APC Campaign Council and served on a sub-committee of the Transition Committee.
