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2023: Why APC Is Yet To Flag Off Presidential Campaign – Keyamo

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Oct 13, 2022.

Keyamo has explained why the APC is yet to flag off its presidential campaign.

Eko Hot Blog reports that Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party is trying to consider all necessary factors before flagging off its campaign.

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In an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, after a meeting of the PCC, the APC National Working Committee (NWC), and the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Keyamo noted that the party’s campaign structure includes a presidential diary.

He, therefore, said the party leadership would need to consult President Muhammadu Buhari, chairman of the campaign council, before picking a date for the campaign flag-off.

“Part of the structure of our campaign involves a presidential diary, our campaign is not like those who have done kick and start with their small vehicles,” Keyamo said.

“Our campaign is like maneuvering a 50-tonne trailer into the highway and once we hit the road, we hit the road.

“So that is what we are doing, the president is the chairman of the campaign council, we are going to take his diary into consideration in picking and choosing the day.

“But, we have virtually agreed that we are going to hit the streets very soon, we have agreed on the region we are going to begin from and on all other basic issues.”

APC stakeholders, including presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at Wednesday’s meeting

In a related development, Keyamo announced that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presented a draft copy of his manifesto to stakeholders at the meeting.

He disclosed that “nearly everyone” approved the manifesto.

“Our candidate is not one that operates on his own, he tries to carry everybody along and today, he presented the draft copy of his manifesto to all the party’s stakeholders and it was accepted by nearly everyone,” the Minister of State for Labour said.

Keyamo further stated that Tinubu would present the manifesto to Nigerians at a later date.