By Kayode Abdulazeez, Ilorin
The Kwara Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC has unveiled 293-member Governorship Campaign team expected to pilot the party to victory come March, 2019 governorship election. The team which is made up of party chieftains selected from the three senatorial districts of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by AbdulRazaq’s media aide, Rafiu Ajakaye.
According to the statement, the team is expected to be chaired by the governorship candidate, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, top members of the council include the Information Minister Lai Mohammed; APC National Publicity Secretary Lanre Issa Onilu; Kwara APC chairman Bashir Bolarinwa; Abdullahi Shuaib Yaman; Prof. Shuaibu Oba AbdulRaheem; Muhammad Dele Belgore SAN; Gobiri Ahmed, Architect Kayode Abogunrin; and all the former governorship aspirants.
It added, that the list also contains all the candidates for Senatorial, House of Representatives and (most of the) House of Assembly polls, state leaders of the party, women and youth leaders from across the state.
The statement further stated that the party also set up a 199-member Elders’ Consultative Forum led by the information minister and elder statesmen such as Dr Amuda Aluko; former governor Cornelius Adebayo; Prof Saka Nuhu; Prof Rasheed Ijaodola; Alhaji LAK Jimoh; Senator Simeon Ajibola; Senator Muhammed Ahmed; Senator Gbemisola Saraki; Titus Ashaolu SAN; Senator Sulaiman Ajadi; Chief Wole Oke; Hon. Isa Bio; M.T. Mamman; and Hajia Zainab Ibrahim, among others.
It said the setting up of the campaign Advisory Council and the Elders’ Consultative Forum was part of the activities to galvanise the people of the state behind the collective efforts including nonpartisan campaigns to free Kwara from misrule, corruption and oppression which the status quo represents.
The statement added that the two bodies would soon be inaugurated even as the house-to-house ‘Otoge’ (enough is enough) campaign has since started across the state amid unprecedented mass acceptance.
