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2023: PDP Appoints Adeleke As Atiku Campaign Council Leader For South-West [Full List]
PDP has appointed Adeleke as Atiku campaign council leader for South-West.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the leadership of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the appointment of the Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as a member of the campaign council.
Adeleke was appointed as the Chairman of the South-West Coordinating Committee of the campaign council, according to a notice signed by the Director-General of the PDP PCO, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, on Saturday.
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Other key PDP members were also appointed to head strategic campaign offices to steer the Atiku Abubakar presidential bid.
Senator Dino Melaye was appointed the Director of Public Affairs.
“These appointments are with immediate effect,” Tambuwal said.
See the zonal list below:
Zonal Coordinating Committee:
1. South-East: Senator Theodore Orji (Chairman)
2. South-South: Senator Duoye Diri (Chairman)
3. South-West: Senator Ademola Adeleke (Chairman)
4. North-Central: Senator Gabriel Suswam (Chairman)
5. North-East: Darius Ishiaku (Chairman)
6. North-West: Adamu Aliero (Chairman)
The campaign council also made appointments of Zonal Liaison Desk Officers.
Adeleke’s appointment is one of the recent appointments made by the PDP campaign council.
Recall that on December 4, former Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was appointed as a member of the PDP Campaign Council.
In a statement, Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto State announced Dogara’s appointment.
Part of the statement read, “The leadership of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council wishes to formally announce that Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has been appointed as a member of the Presidential Campaign Council with immediate effect.
“This is part of our continuous effect in joining hands with our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to recover our great country, Nigeria.”
Dogara was a member of the All Progressives Congress, who had expressed opposition to the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party.
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He has now been welcomed into the PDP at a Lagos presidential rally of the party. The development came after the Northern Leaders Consultative Forum comprising Christian and Muslim religious and political leaders in the North, including Dogara, endorsed Atiku.
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