• Akpabio & Akume
Senate President Godswill Akpabio, seven governors, Secretary to the Government of the Federation(SGF), George Akume; Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, and two ministers are to lead the All Progressives Congress(APC) governorship campaigns in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states.
Besides Akpabio, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos); Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Umar Bago (Niger) and Uba Sani (Kaduna) have been assigned to co-chair a 135-member team for Kogi, while Governors Bassey Otu (Cross River), Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi), Kalu and Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, are to jointly head a 138-member council for Imo State.
A 123-member team for Bayelsa State will be co-chaired by Governor Muhammad Yahaya of Gombe State, Akume, Akpabio and Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru.
APC’s National Organising Secretary Sulaiman Argungu said yesterday that the ruling party’s National Working Committee (NWC) approved the three campaign councils after consultations.
Argungu explained that no date has been fixed for the inauguration of the members of the councils.
The governorship elections in the three states will hold on November 11.
