Does PMB have the power to appoint Osinbajo’s aides?

According to a report by Premium Times, the President is appointing the VP’s spokesperson.

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to name a former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande, as a Senior Special Assistant to lead the media and communication unit in the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today.

People familiar with the president’s plan said Mr. Akande’s appointment would be among several others to be announced Monday or Tuesday.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that under the present arrangement in the presidency, there would be only one presidential media and communication office but that individual appointees would be given separate responsibilities.

Doesn’t Yemi Osinbajo have the power to appoint his own officials?

Akande, who is a pastor, was a former editor of Saturday Tribune. Maybe PMB thought, “they’re both pastors, they’ll be fine”. It’s the only thing that makes sense in my head right now.

Akande cut his journalism teeth at The Guardian in 1989, and was one of the founding staff of The NEWS magazine.He moved to the United States in 1997 after agents of then dictator, Sani Abacha, began harassing him over perceived critical stance of his paper (Saturday Tribune) to the administration.

According to his brief bio on a christian organization website, CANUSA for which he works as executive director, Mr. Akande is regarded as “the longest serving African correspondent at the United Nations, and the only Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a sitting American president in the White House when he interviewed former President George W. Bush.

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