Things are definitely looking up for the former Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, as her days of hibernation may just be over, having been appointed Deputy Director-General, Administration, of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council.
Findings by THEWILL reveal that Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State allegedly made the appointment possible. The duo have a close relationship dating back to her time at the Bureau of Public Enterprises and later with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the Federal Capital Territory Administration as a special assistant to the Minister on project implementation. El Rufai had a stint in BPE at about that time. He was also the minister under whom Bala-Usman worked.
She would later work briefly for the outgoing governor as his chief of staff before her appointment as the MD, NPA. Her latest appointment is a high-powered one that involves her travelling with the entourage of the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and making very important decisions that affects the presidential campaign, positively or negatively.
There is no gain saying the fact that Bala-Usman will obviously be rewarded with a juicy political appointment, should the APC win the presidential election next year. For want of something to keep her busy, the former activist had returned to activism after she was booted out of NPA. But it was only for a short while until she got her latest appointment.
Activism was the lever that projected her to national limelight. Alongside former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili, she floated the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, a movement that began in the wake of the abduction of more than 200 pupils of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. But maintaining the course and ensuring that her movement forced the Federal Government to get the girls released from their abductors, wasn’t quite her end game because as soon as she got the juicy NPA position, she abandoned her cause.
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