Engr. Babachir Davis Lawal, hails from Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa State. He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979 with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and worked with the Delta Steel Company, Aladja, Nigerian External Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences Limited before establishing his own ICT and Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990. He is also a member of the Nigeria Computer Society, the Nigeria Society of Engineers and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.
Babachir Lawal is also the National Vice Chairman of the All progressives Congress (APC), in the northeast.
His appointment was announced this evening by Femi Adesina, the President’s Spokesman