The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will on Tuesday maintain its inaugural meeting ahead of the celebration’s campaign flag-off for the 2027 presidential election.
The meeting, in keeping with an inside memorandum signed by the council’s Secretary, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, is scheduled for two p.m. on the Presidential Campaign Council headquarters on Herbert Macaulay Way, Central Business District, Abuja.
The memo, dated 18 October and addressed to members of the council, stated the meeting would formally start the collective project of the council ahead of the election.
It stated the meeting would additionally contemplate and undertake the campaign calendar and deliberate on preparations for the formal graduation of the campaign in Kaduna on Saturday, 24 October.
The meeting is “strictly by invitation and is open to only the 134 members of the Presidential Campaign Council” listed by the celebration.
The council additionally talked about that the attendance was restricted to administrators and secretaries of the assorted directorates.
The meeting is anticipated to be attended by a number of distinguished members of the campaign council, together with Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike; Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke; Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo; and Mr Uzodimma.
Also anticipated on the meeting are Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas and Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, who’re listed as deputy vice chairmen I, II and III, respectively.
Other senior members of the council embrace Yobe State Governor Mala Buni, appointed deputy director-General I for the North, and Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, who’s deputy director-general II for the area.
Edo North Senator Adams Oshiomhole is the deputy diirector-general for Mobilisation, whereas Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Benjamin Kalu are deputy directors-generals I and II for the South, respectively.
The council additionally includes governors from a number of states who’ve been assigned to coordinate the celebration’s presidential campaign of their respective states.
The Kaduna occasion is anticipated to mark the start of the APC’s nationwide campaign actions for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.
The inaugural meeting comes days after the inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Council on the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the place Mr Tinubu described himself as an “errand man” of the celebration and pledged to stay dedicated to its targets, guarantees and manifesto.
The campaign council is anticipated to coordinate the APC’s mobilisation and campaign actions throughout the nation because the celebration intensifies preparations for the 2027 presidential election scheduled for 16 January.
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