President Bola Tinubu last week appointed a new governing board and management for the Federal Road Management Agency (FERMA) for four years.
The newly appointed chairman of the FERMA, Engr. Imam Ibrahim Kashim Imam turned out to be the youngest to whom Tinubu has saddled with the leadership role at FERMA.
He is also so far the youngest appointee of President Tinubu thus far.
Docpetnews and Politics Digest did separate media reviews cum foci on him with the former putting his age at 24 while the latter reporting 25.
Docpetnews in particular said that President Tinubu had been commended for appointing many youths into his cabinet.
It reported how the president had earlier promised that the youth would drive his administration.
According to the report, “Engr. Imam Ibrahim Kashim Imam is a 24-year-old born in December 1998. He graduated from Brighton University in the United Kingdom with a first-class in Mechanical Engineering.
“The promising young man had his undergraduate and master’s degrees at Brighton University and completed his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in August 2022.
“Before his appointment by President Tinubu, Imam Muhammed was a special assistant to the minister of works and former governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi.
“Kashim Imam’s father, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, is a Nigerian politician and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was the PDP governorship candidate in the 2003 and 2007 elections in Borno State but lost to Ali Modu, Sheriff of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) on the two occasions.”
THE CONCLAVE reports that Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim Imam, the tall Borno politician, was until the recent dissolution of boards of federal government parastatal agencies, the Chairman of the Board of TETFUND.
FERM, whose board, his son has just been appointed to chair, is a federal government agency saddled with the responsibility of road construction, connection and improvement across states in the country.
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