{"id":22921,"date":"2019-09-02T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22921"},"modified":"2019-09-02T07:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:19:02","slug":"revealed-buharis-new-sa-on-infrastructure-is-inecs-amina-zakaris-son-by-farooq-kperogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22921","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: Buhari\u2019s New SA on Infrastructure is INEC\u2019s Amina Zakari\u2019s Son  By Farooq Kperogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19214&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When people objected to the appointment of Mrs. Amina Zakari as head of INEC\u2019s committee that would be in charge of the \u201csecretariat for collation of results\u201d of the last presidential election, both the presidency and Zakari lied that Buhari and Zakari had no family relationship until I exploded their duplicitous mendacity in a January 5, 2019 update. (I\u2019ll come to that shortly).<\/p>\n<p>Well, many people don\u2019t seem to notice that Buhari has compensated Mrs. Zakari for helping him to rig the 2019 election; He appointed her biological son by the name of Ahmed Rufa&#8217;i Zakari as his new Special Adviser on Infrastructure, a pointless, previously non-existent position specifically created to pay back Mrs. Zakari. Mr. Zakari holds the traditional title of San Turakin Kazaure.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari also reappointed Mrs. Zakari\u2019s brother, Suleiman Hussaini Adamu, as Minister of Water Resources. Adamu and Mrs. Zakari are full siblings, i.e., they share the same father and mother. They are the children of Alhaji Hussaini Adamu (who was emir of Kazaure) and Hajia Hafsatu Hussaini Adamu. The current emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu, is their older brother with whom they\u2019re also full siblings.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate past commissioner of education in Jigawa State, Mrs. Rabih Eshaq, is also their younger sister (again, same father, same mother.) So the same family basically monopolizes political appointments in the state. And it\u2019s all due to their Buhari\/Daura connections.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, Hajiya Hafsatu, is the daughter of Alhaji Jibril Daura, a Daura native. More than that, though, Buhari\u2019s biological sister was once married to Mrs. Zakari\u2019s father. That makes her Buhari\u2019s niece. The Oxford Dictionary defines a niece as, \u201cA daughter of one&#8217;s brother or sister, or of one&#8217;s brother-in-law or sister-in-law.\u201d Mrs. Zakari\u2019s father was Buhari\u2019s brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all. As I pointed out in my Jan. 5, 2019 update, at some point in his youth, Buhari, who lost his father at a young age, came under the guardianship of Mrs. Zakari\u2019s father, the late Alhaji Hussaini Adamu. Buhari continues to nurture his relationship with the Hussaini Adamu family. When he was PTF boss, for instance, he got Mrs. Zakari a consultancy contract with Afri-Projects Consortium (APC), \u201cthe sole manager of the PTF projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Goodluck Jonathan asked Buhari for a candidate for INEC commissionership, he nominated Mrs. Zakari. In my update, I said, \u201cThis fact, as I pointed out in my Saturday Tribune column, isn\u2019t enough to vitiate her neutrality. After all, Jonathan defeated Buhari in 2011 while she was INEC commissioner. But deceiving the world by concealing the nature and depth of her relationship with Buhari shows that she\u2019s up to no good this time around.\u201d My predictions materialized.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Mrs. Zakari\u2019s son to an utterly purposeless position isn\u2019t just a reward for her help in perpetrating unexampled electoral fraud on Buhari\u2019s behalf; it\u2019s also a continuation of Buhari\u2019s trademarked bald-faced nepotism. I know this isn&#8217;t anything that will shock anyone&#8211;or change anything&#8211; but I just want to put it out there for the records.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19214&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people objected to the appointment of Mrs. Amina Zakari as head of INEC\u2019s committee that would be in charge of the \u201csecretariat for collation of results\u201d of the last presidential election, both the presidency and Zakari lied that Buhari and Zakari had no family relationship until I exploded their duplicitous mendacity in a January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5602,5601,164],"class_list":["post-22921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-ahmed-rufai-zakari","tag-amina-zakari","tag-inec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/buhari-3.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5XH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22922,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/22922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}