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Presidential Spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale Steps Down Indefinitely

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja
       Ajuri Ngelale 

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale has stepped down from his official duties indefinitely.

This implies that Ngelale will no longer serve 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. 

He announced his decision to embark on indefinite leave through a statement issued by the Presidency on Saturday. 

Ngelale noted that he had submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, informing him of his plan to proceed on indefinite leave.

He maintained that he stepped down from his official duties to deal with medical issues that is presently affecting his nuclear family.

The statement reads: "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 agonising 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."

Briefly 
Ngelale was born on November 13, 1986, in Platteville, Wisconsin, United States to a Nigerian father from Eleme in Rivers State, Precious Ngelale, and a German-American mother, Diane Ngelale.

As a broadcast journalist, he had served as a senior reporter and presenter at Africa Independent Television and Channels Television before his appointment. 

He had earlier served as the Senior Special Adviser on Public Affairs to President Muhammadu Buhari between 2019 and 2023, and was a co-principal spokesperson of the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 presidential election.

On August 1, 2023, Ngelale was appointed as the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.

A statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation revealed that the appointment took effect on July 31, 2023, and will terminate at the end of this administration unless otherwise decided by the President.

But on May 19, 2024, Tinubu appointed Ngelale as the first Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action. He was also appointed as the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen and Secretary of the Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions.

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