By OKECHUKWU PEACE
All attention is now on Colonel Hameed Ali (Rtd) who has been appointed as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, according to SaharaReporters.
Here are some quick facts about the man who purportedly beat Babatunde Raji Fashola to the job.
*Hammed Ali was a military administrator of Kaduna State during the military regime of Sani Abacha.
*As military administrator, Ali sacked over 30, 000 striking civil servants and detained 18 Local Government Chairmen in Kaduna.
*During the 2015 elections, he was in charge of crowd funding project for President Muhammadu Buhari presidency project.
*Hameed Ali was the secretary of Arewa Consultative Forum.
*Following the removal of fuel subsidy in 2012, he led the Kaduna protest to revert the pump price to N65. The protest was marred by violence as hundreds of Kaduna youth attacked local police.
*He has been listed as Buhari’s Chief of Staff since April, 2015 on his Wikipedia page.
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