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APC: Ganduje names ex-NUJ President Garba as Chief of Staff

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has appointed a former National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Malam Muhammad Garba, as his Chief of Staff.

Garba’s appointment was announced in a statement by the APC Director of Publicity, Bala Ibrahim, yesterday in Abuja.

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Garba was Kano State Commissioner for Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, and later as Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs from 2015 to 2023 when Ganduje was governor.

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He was a Federal Commissioner at the Fiscal Responsibility Commission from 2011 to 2014; Member and Convener of Federal Government’s Subsidy and Reinvestment and Empowerment Committee (SURE-P) between 2012 and 2015.

Garba was a two-term NUJ National; President of West African Journalists Association (WAJA) and was also elected at Casablanca, Morocco, as President of Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) and a member of the steering committee International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in Dublin, Ireland.

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He was Press Secretary to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1993 and to the Deputy Governor of Kano State from 1999 to 2003.

Garba, a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in History/Political Science and a Master’s in Development Studies from Bayero University in Kano, also holds a National Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from the International Institute of Journalism.

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He served as the spokesperson of the Gawuna/Garo campaign organisation in 2023.

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