Tinubu appoints Dele Alake as spokesman
President Bola Tinubu has made his first set of appointments as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In the appointments, he named Ambassador Kunle Adeleke as the State Chief of Protocol (SCOP) to the President.
He also appointed former Lagos State Commissioner of Information, Dele Alake as Presidential Spokesman and Olusegun Dada Special Adviser, Digital Media.
Alake was commissioner for information and strategy in Lagos between 1999–2007 when Tinubu was the governor.
In 2014, he was appointed as the director of media and communication of the Buhari campaign organisation – his return to national politics after a brief hiatus from public roles.
As a journalist, Alake worked with Concord Press publishers as a writer and editor.
After a year, he became a columnist in the National Concord and served in that capacity until 1989.
He was appointed editor of Sunday Concord in the same year and held the position till 1995 before becoming the editor of the National Concord.
