President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa to serve as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Disability Matters.
Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa is a distinguished champion of persons with disabilities with over a decade of experience in local and international advocacy on matters concerning persons with disabilities.
According to the media aide to the president, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, the president’s action was in tandem with his determination to ensure that every segment of society was sufficiently catered to within the ambit of the Renewed Hope Agenda of his administration.
The new presidential aide is a graduate of Public Administration with honours from the University of Maiduguri where he would go on to earn a Masters in Public Administration at the same institution in 2017.
The president, Ngelale said, tasked the new appointee to proactively create avenues of opportunity for inclusion through the inculcation of PWD requirements and perspectives in the policies and programmes of all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of the Federal Government while working closely with sub-national authorities to build a national consensus on PWD-friendly policy and environmental conditions in collaboration with the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, NCPWD.
