Kwara Governor Picks Channels TV Reporter as Aide

By Aduragbemi Omiyale

One of the journalists with Channels Television, Mr Bashir Adigun, has been appointed as an aide to the Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

A statement issued on Friday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, disclosed that Mr Adigun was chosen by Mr AbdulRazaq as his Special Adviser on Political Communications.

According to the CPS, the senior media practitioner was among the seven Special Advisers selected by the Governor to assist take decisions that would move the state forward.

Mr Adigun, who is married with children, is a native of Ifelodun local government and he is armed with decades of experience across the print and broadcast media industry.

Before his latest appointment, he was the Controller News and Current Affairs (Northern Nigeria) for the Channels TV and the Abuja Correspondent for a leading global newswire, Associated Press (AP). He also worked as a Reporter/Researcher at the Guardian newspaper.

He is a 1990 graduate of Communications and Language Arts at the Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan, Oyo State.

He has two Master’s degrees, both from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria —  Masters in International Affairs and Diplomacy (MIAD) and Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice (MLC).

In the statement, Mr Ajakaye said the Governor appointed Mr Saliu Tunde Bello as his Special Adviser on Security, Professor Adekunle Dunmade as Special Adviser on Health, Mr Ahmed Yinka Aluko as Special Adviser on Special Duties), while Mr Attahiru Ibrahim as chosen as Special Adviser on Sports and Youths.

In addition, the former Special Adviser on Political (SAPOL) Mr Saadu Salau, was named as the Special Adviser on Strategy, while the former Special Adviser Strategy, Mr Abdullateef Alakawa is now the new SAPOL.