Posted on: 03:25 Tue, 23 Feb 2016



President Buhari has appointed a
visually impaired man, Dr. Samuel
Inalegwu Ode Ankeli as his Senior
Special Assistant on matters
concerning disabled people.

Senior Special Assistant to Buhari
on Media and Publicity, Shehu
Garba, announced this in a
statement released today Feb. 22nd.

Shehu stated that Ankeli had
headed the Directorate of Persons
with Disability at the Buhari/
Osinbajo APC Presidential
Campaign Headquarters, “the first
of any such department in a
political party in Nigeria”.

“Dr Ankeli hails from Benue State.
He went to school in Giwa, near
Zaria and Kaduna before reading
veterinary medicine at the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria.

He worked with the Benue State
government before quitting to give
time to his activist role in the
promotion of the wellbeing of the
blind and people with all kinds of
disability.

He leads a very active religious and
sporting life. He is married and has
children”the statement read