President Buhari’s close ally, Ahmed Joda is dead.
Newsonline reports that Nigeria’s Elder Statesman who headed the 2015 Transition Committee of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ahmed Joda is dead.
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This online news platform understands that Ahmed Joda death was confirmed by some friends and family members on Friday.
Joda was a retired Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industries, and rose to become one of the super Permanent Secretaries under the military government of Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd.) in the 1970s.
He served as chairman and board member of various companies including; the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Communications Commission, Pastoral Resolve, Chagoury Group, and the Flour Mills of Nigeria.
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He was also a member of the 1988 Constituent Assembly which planned the constitutional transition of the Third Nigerian Republic.
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In 1999, he was appointed in the committee to advise the Olusegun Obasanjo’s Presidency on Poverty Alleviation and in 2015, he headed the Muhammadu Buhari presidential transition.
