PROFILE OF THE NEW SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUHARI ON YOUTH & SUDENTS AFFAIRS – NASIR SA’IDU ADHAMA

PROFILE OF THE NEW SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUHARI ON YOUTH & SUDENTS AFFAIRS – NASIR SA’IDU ADHAMA

Mr Nasir Sa'idu Adhama is the newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Affairs. Mr. Adhama has been a grassroot mobilizer and an ardent supporter of President Buhari throughout his political journey. His unwavered support, unparalleled loyalty to the President and belief in the Buhari Change Agenda has kept him close to Mr President.

An old ally of the President, Mr Adhama has been an entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist throughout his adult life.

In the political sphere, he was National Youth Coordinator of the Buhari/Okadigbo Presidential Campaign in 2002/2003 and a one time Candidate of the CPC for membership of Kano State House of Assembly in 2011. Mr Adhama has been active in politics, right from his school days.

Mr Adhama also held the following positions over the last few years:
• Member, United Nations Youth Assembly
• Secretary – General- Kwandala Foundation, Nigeria
• Member- Harmonization Committee (APC)
• Kano State Assistant Welfare Secretary – Kano State Chapter (APC)
• Member- Presidential Committee Youth Directorate (APC) 2015
• Chairman- Local Government Election Committee (APC Madobi LGA)
• Chairman – Local Government Party Primaries (APC)
• Chairman- Election Committee National Assembly Party Primaries, Dawakin Kudu/Wurawa LGA
• North /West Youth Leader/Chairman Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Presidential Campaign Committee Youth Directorate (2011)
• Kano State Youth Leader (CPC)
• Member- Contact & Mobilization Committee (CPC)
• Member- Registration & Verification Committee (CPC)
• CPC Candidate State Assembly, Nassarawa Constituency, Kano State
• Acting- Secretary -General CPC Kano state
• Founder - PMB Nigeria Worldwide
• North /West Youth Leader/Chairman ANPP Presidential Campaign Committee Youth Directorate (2007)
• Member - Kano State Transition Committee 2003 Youth Committee
• National Coordinator -Youth Organization for Buhari and Okadigbo (YOBO) -2003
• Chairman – ANPP Presidential Campaign Committee Youth Directorate (2003)
• Secretary-General – Students Union Government (SUG), Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State
• Secretary- General- National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS)
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• President – Young Electrical Electronics Engineering Students Association of Nigeria
• Secretary- General- Muslim Students Association of Nigeria (MSS)
• Secretary-General- National Association of Kano State Students (NAKSS)
• President- Northern Student Association of Nigeria
• Vice Chairman- Arewa Youth Council Kano State Chapter
• Member- Kano State Youth Council
• Member – Nigerian Youth Council
• Recipient of several youth awards, locally and internationally.

An Engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, with expertise in managing manufacturing value chain, mining and trade, the SSAP also comes from a lineage of industrialists. His grandfather owns one of the oldest mines/quarry in Kano State and his father established the oldest Textile Manufacturing Company in Kano - Adhama Textiles Ltd. His family textile business used to be the largest private employer of labour in Kano and at one time, almost competed with the State Government in terms of size of their employees.

Mr Adhama has always exhibited his aversion for paid employment after his education as he never believed in white-collar jobs. He always believed in self-employment and entrepreneurship, and had never looked back.

We wish him success in his new appointment.
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