Bello was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Rosalinda Baldoz in the secretaryship. Unless stated otherwise, the secretaryship ended with the officeholder's death. The school expanded under the secretaryship of Joseph Soul in Hampstead. Ebenezer Ako Adjei, then a young lawyer, was offered the paid secretaryship of the U.G.C.C. By doing this, he practically signaled his support for Gorbachev's accession to the General Secretaryship. Gorbachev's election to the General Secretaryship was the quickest in Soviet history. During his Komsomol First Secretaryship, Shevardnadze met Mikhail Gorbachev for his first time. Andrei Gromyko, the longtime foreign minister, proposed Gorbachev as a candidate for the General Secretaryship. Johnson told Grant he intended to remove Stanton, and give him the War Secretaryship. Upon Brezhnev's death in 1982, Tikhonov supported Chernenko's candidacy for the General Secretaryship. Sympathies for the BBL 'stretched into the secretaryship of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration'.