Meet 24 Year Old Special Assistance to Mr President

 Bashir Ahmed named as Mr President’s New Special Assistance on New Media. Commendation as long gone the way of Mr. President, whom many Nigerians hailed for ensuring the active participation of youths in governance in the country as against initial claims in some quarters that he only had former allies and oldies as his appointees.

 Bashir Ahmed is just 24, a northerner, a situation with which a lot are not pleased with because its believed that Mr President should have looked towards the south-south direction. Mr Bashir graduated from Bayero University Kano in 2013 with Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication.

 He worked as an online editor and reporter at Rariya Hausa Newspaper before leaving to join Leadership as an online editor where he was the Hausa editor prior to his appointment by President Buhari.

 Mr Bahir was the personal assistance on new media to Sam Nda-Isaiah, the publisher of Leadership, who contested alongside Mr. Buhari for the All Progressive Congress, APC’s presidential ticket for 2015 election.