Ghanaian president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo, has appointed
Saratu Atta as a personal assistant as he ramps up activities ahead of his
inauguration Saturday.
Ms. Atta, 53, is a former wife of Nigerian politician, Femi
Fani-Kayode. She has served as an executive aide to Mr. Akufo-Addo since 2009,
a statement on the president-elect’s website said Wednesday.
She is amongst the three women of a total 12 appointees so
far named by Mr. Akufo-Addo, but the statement did not provide further details
about her new role.
The two other women are Akosua Osei-Opare, Chief of Staff to
the President, and Clara Tia, a presidential staffer.
A brief citation of Ms. Atta said that she is a graduate of
the University of Warwick, UK, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics
and International Studies.
She worked as a Securities Trader at First Securities
Discount House in Lagos, Nigeria from 1993 to 1997, and went on to establish
her own security printing company in Lagos.
She is a member of the New Patriotic Party, one of the two
major political parties in Ghana, and served as the party’s campaign secretary
since 2008.
She married Mr. Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former Minister of
Aviation, in 1987 and bore him a female child named Folake in the same year.
They parted ways around 1989 when Mr. Fani-Kayode found a new wife, Yemisi
Wada.
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