{"id":2193,"date":"2023-09-18T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:40:08","slug":"dr-hakeem-baba-ahmed-appointed-as-kashim-shettimas-political-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/18\/dr-hakeem-baba-ahmed-appointed-as-kashim-shettimas-political-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed Appointed as Kashim Shettima&#8217;s Political Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Uchendu Alexis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has been appointed as the Special Adviser Political) to Vice President Shettima. This announcement was made by Dr. Baba-Ahmed himself, a prominent figure in Nigerian politics and academia, through his social media account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Dr. Baba-Ahmed expressed his commitment to serving the nation, stating, &#8220;It is time to make it public that I have accepted the call to serve as Special Adviser Political to the Vice President, Shettima. This is not the time for fence-sitting or criticism when you can be useful in turning the country around. I am honored and humbled. Please pray for me &amp; Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This appointment holds added significance as Dr. Baba-Ahmed is the elder brother of Datti Baba-Ahmed, who was the Labour Party&#8217;s vice presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this new role, Dr. Baba-Ahmed served as the immediate past spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum, where he demonstrated a deep understanding of the country&#8217;s political dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uchendu Alexis\u00a0 &nbsp; Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has been appointed as the Special Adviser Political) to Vice President Shettima. This announcement was made by Dr. Baba-Ahmed himself, a prominent figure in Nigerian politics and academia, through his social media account. &nbsp; In his statement, Dr. Baba-Ahmed expressed his commitment to serving the nation, stating, &#8220;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}