The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, has resigned from President Tinubu’s government.
Mr. Ngelale also served in the same capacity to former President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement issued by the Presidency on Saturday, Ngelale was quoted to have said he was stepping down indefinitely to attend to personal family matters, he had was said to have sent in his resignation letter to the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.
Aside resigning his appointment as spokesman to the President, Mr. Ngelale also stepped down as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen.
Confirming his resignation, Mr. Ngelale, issued a statement to that effect, the statement reads in part:
“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.”
There has been speculations that the media team of President Tinubu was in chaos due to the “overbearing influence” of certain close allies to the president, especially Mr. Bayo Onanuga who has been accused of being an ethnic bigot.