The appointment of Ibrahim Addra as the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has generated some confusion over who is actually the Governor’s spokesman.

The confusion emanated from a publication reportedly quoting the Director-General, Strategic Communication and Press Affairs, Mr. Yakubu Lamai, as still being in charge of the Governor’s public communications.

This was seen as some form of ‘resistance’ in some quarters in government circles.

Lamai was quoted in the publication as saying: “Addra will be joining Malam Yakubu Lamai who remains the Director General, Strategic Communication and Press Affairs to His excellency, Governor Abdullahi Sule.”

Reacting to the statement, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dogo Shammah, told journalists that Mallan Yakubu Lamai “is on his own”.

According to him: “Whatever interpretation he is giving, is personal to him, but his Excellency today during the emergency State Executive Council meeting announced that he has appointed a Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and he thankes the DG Strategic Communication and Press Affairs for what he has done and from now onward he would be restricted to Director-General Strategic Communication Office, while the new CPS will handle the press affairs.

“But if he is giving a different interpretation, that is his personal business, but I have never seen where a CPS works under a DG. The DG is a nomenclature that is created politically by the Governor.”