Newsonline The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has included the children of President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Yusuf Bichi, Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) in its national youth campaign council ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Notable names in the campaign council are the children of President Muhammadu Buhari (Zara and Yusuf Buhari), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Kiki Osinbajo), the APC flagbearer, Bola Tinubu (Seyi Tinubu), and his running mate, Kashim Shettima (Amir Shettima).
The ruling party already has a campaign council and the women’s wing in place to garner support for Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC.
The APC National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel, unveiled the youth campaign council, tagged ‘Jagaban’s Army’, via his Twitter page on Tuesday.
He tweeted: “It is such a honor to welcome those that have gone ahead of me; from the legacy parties national youth leaders to the APC former youth leaders beginning from Dasuki Jallo to Sadiq Abubakar and Ismael Ahmed – to provide their support to the APC Nat Youth Wing Campaign Council.
“I am also honoured to invite and welcome the children of the current first and second family/and the offspring of the incoming first and second family as well as children of many APC first families to join us as we engage the next generation for our party and our candidate.”
Among the children of key APC stakeholders on the list are that of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, among others.
Also, the list is Bello el-Rufai, son of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State; Mohammed Zulum, son of governor Babagana Zulum of Borno; Mohammed Atiku Bagudu, son of governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state; Ibrahim Bello Matawelle, son of governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state; and Amam Rochas Okorocha, son of former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha.
Here is the full list.
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