Nigeria, Feb. 20 -- Five days after formally defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Kaduna senator Suleiman Hunkuyi has secured a federal appointment.

Mr Hunkuyi was appointed as a member of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) representing the North West region.

President Bola Tinubu also appointed Saviour Enyiekere, an aide of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, as the chairman of the commission, alongside 11 other members.

Mr Hunkuyi was the senator for the Kaduna North district between 2015 and 2019 as a member of the APC.

He left the party after joining the two other senators from the state in opposing a request by the then-Governor Nasir El-Rufai for Senate approval of a foreign loan for the state.

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