President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Tolu Ogunlesi as the Special Assistant on digital and new media. Last year, Premium Times announced that Ogunlesi had undergone security screening and his appointment was to be announced in the coming days. This did not happen and Tolu did not verify the news.
This time, it is for real because the announcement was made by the President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu on Twitter.
1. President @MBuhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi (@ToluOgunlesi) as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) February 18, 2016
Tolu Ogunlesi, a renowned blogger & journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004. He obtained an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. Before his appointment, Tolu worked as a Features Editor and Editorial Board member of NEXT Newspaper and as a West Africa Editor for The Africa Report magazine from 2014 to 2015.
Tolu is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards and a 2015 New Media Fellow of the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP).
Mr. Ogunlesi’s appointment comes some days after Mr. Buhari appointed Bashir Ahmad as his new Personal Assistant on New and Social Media.
According to Garba Shehu, Tolu Ogunlesi will be assisted by Bashir Ahmad.
