UPDATED: Tinubu’s spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, proceeds on indefinite leave

The Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, has embarked on indefinite leave of absence.

He said he stepped down from his position as the spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu to squarely attend to health matters involving his nuclear family.

Ngelale, in a statement he posted on his Facebook page on Saturday, said he had informed the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, of his intention to proceed on an indefinite leave of absence.

The statement read, “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.

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“While I fully appreciate that the ship of state waits for no man, this agonizing 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 I during this time.”