President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Hon. Nasiru Baballe Ila as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).
The announcement was contained in a statement by the President’s spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Sunday.
According to the statement, Nasiru, a product of Victory College, Alexandria and West London College, United Kingdom, was a successful businessman with interests in haulage, ginnery and tannery before his foray into politics.
In 2011 and 2015, he was voted into the lower chamber of the National Assembly as a member representing Tarauni Federal Constituency in Kano.
The Chartered member of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria, replaces Hon. Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub, who has been appointed Minister by the President.