JUST IN: Tinubu’s Media Adviser Resigns

Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, has resigned from his role with immediate effect due to a family health crisis.

In a statement issued by the Presidency on Saturday, Ngelale revealed that he had submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, informing him of his decision to take an indefinite leave of absence.

Ngelale, who also served as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen, cited medical matters affecting his immediate and nuclear family as the reason for his departure.

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The statement read:

“On Friday, I submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President informing my office that I am proceeding on an indefinite leave of absence to frontally deal with medical matters presently affecting my immediate nuclear family.

“While I fully appreciate that the ship of state waits for no man, this agonizing decision – entailing a pause of my functions as the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity and Official Spokesperson of the President, Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action, and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen – was taken after significant consultations with my family over the past several days as a vexatious medical situation has worsened at home.

“I look forward to returning to full-time national service when time, healing, and fate permit. I respectfully ask for some privacy for my family and me during this time.”

Stay tuned for more details…