President Muhammadu Buhari who arrived Riyadh on official visit to
Saudi Arabia on Monday, appointed Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli as his
Senior Special Assistant with responsibility for handling matters
concerning persons living with disability.
According to a statement by the presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, the visually impaired veterinary doctor, "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."
The statement added that "He led a team that successfully
mobilized a large number of the more that 24 million disabled persons in
the country to support the APC candidate and his running mate in the
2015 presidential election campaign."
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.
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