APC, Tinubu To Commence Campaigns With Abuja March

By Bukola Kayode

 All Progressives Congress will on Wednesday kick off its presidential campaign nationwide with a solidarity march from the PCC office on Herbert Macaulay Way, Central Business District, Abuja, to the Unity Fountain, Maitama.

According to the timetable set by Independent National Electoral Commission campaigns should start on September 28.

The ruling party will be hoping to match the large turn of supporters of Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who held a successful walk in Abuja on Saturday.

It was learnt that plans have been put in place to ensure that the campaigns take off simultaneously in different regions of the country, the new plan comes soon after the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday unveiled a 422-man committee comprising political heavyweights and other notable members to pilot the various sub-committees of the campaign council.

The campaign council chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, as co-deputy chairmen.

Also on the PCC are APC governors, ministers, lawmakers, ambassadors as well as serving and past public office holders.

Zonal and state coordinators, advisers, campaign patrons, directors, deputy directors and secretaries of directorates were also named.

The sub-committees include media and publicity; support group coordination; national youth mobilisation; parliamentarian; trade and economic; agriculturists/commodities; campaign planning; civil societies; Diaspora directorate; election planning and monitoring; finance; fund raising; and humanitarian/social.