Lawal Lauds Tinubu for the appointment of Rikiji as DG Notn

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara, he praised President Bola Tinubu for having appointed a former speaker, State House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, as director+General, Nigerian headquarters for commercial negotiations (Notn).

This is contained in a letter of congratulations to Rikiji for his recent appointment, signed by Lawal

to Gusau on Friday.

The letter reads: ” It is with a happy heart, which I wish to convey to you on behalf of myself and the good people from Zamfara, our warm congratulations for your appointment as general manager, Nonn, by President Tinubu. “

The governor described the appointment of Rikiji as timely and commendable.

“While you prepare to fix you and perform the functions of the office, I assure you of my support and my prayers and that of the good people from Zamfara to be successful and deliver the heavy burden and the responsibilities entrusted to you by Mr President.

“As you face the new altruistic service, we are confident that your mixture of skills, innovative ideas equipped, decades of experience and divine intervention will guide you to transform and open new windows of opportunities to move the Nigeria trade on a global level.

“We pray that your presence there as our ambassador will change the narratives,” added the governor.

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