Group appreciate Femi Gbajabiamila for recognize disable person as SA

The APC Youth Organization group on Friday released a press from the National president, Comrade Ogunolu samsideen Opeyemi to the Newsmen.

Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Abdulsalam Idowu Kamaldeen

In his statement, hereby appreciating the speaker of the house of rep., Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for the recognition given to the disable citizen in his cabinet as SA.

The New Special Assistant to Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on Special Needs /Equal Opportunities.

Abdulsalam Idowu kamaldeen, 49 year, became physically challenged at the age of three (3) due to polio infection. 

He lost his mother a year after he lost his legs to polio. Abdulsalam started primary education at age of 8 in 1978 at Erin-Ile, kwara state. 

He started street begging same year due to financial constraint. Thereafter he finished his primary school in 1993 and came to Lagos, where he found himself on the street begging for alms and sleeping under the Dosunmu bridge at Idumota.

After his secondary school education, he then started evening classes. 

He gained admission to study political science in UNILAG in 2006 and graduated in 2010. In his determination to become a lawyer he sat for JAMB exams and gained admission to study law at the University of Lagos in 2010, (same year he graduated in political science). He finished in 2015. Abdulsalam proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, passed all his papers at first sitting and was called to bar in 2016.

Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila in his former capacity as the House Majority Leader discovered Abdulsalam Kamaldeen and invited him to the floor of the House in 2017 for Special Recognition by the House.

Kamaldeen, a practicing lawyer, hails from Kwara State.