Osinbajo, Amaechi, Ganduje, Missing As APC Flags Off Presidential Campaign Council

Osinbajo, Amaechi, Ganduje, and some chieftains of APC were absent during the ruling party’s Presidential Campaign Council Inauguration.

 

Newsonline reports that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as well as some the All Progressives Congress, APC, were absent at the unveiling of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the ruling party on Friday.

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The ruling party inaugurated its presidential campaign council after so much waiting on Friday.

Those present include the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Others include the Director-General of the PCC and Plateau State governor, Mr Simon Lalong, Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum and Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El-Rufai.

Also in attendance was the former National Chairman of the party, Bisi Akande and a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, among others.

The National Chairman of the APC, Senator Adamu Abdullahi led other members of the National Working Committee as well as other relevant organs of the party to the event.

 

Sources close to the presidential candidate of APC, Bola Tinubu disclosed that efforts are being made to ensure that aggrieved members of the party are brought on board, Telegraph reports.

 

The source said, “We are aware of some discontent within the party over the emergence of Asiwaju as the candidate of the party and we are not resting on our laurels on this. We are indeed working on it. We have secured the needed assurances from Governor El-Rufai to help in this regard.”

 

A source close to the Vice President said Osinbajo was absent because of the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that asked him not to be part of the PCC.

Recall that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Ameachi, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi, among others, contested the APC presidential ticket against the former Lagos State governor.

 

Some of the presidential aspirants that contested against Tinubu had kept their distance from the happenings within the party, as well as the activities surrounding the presidential campaign, a sign that all was not well within the ruling party.

 

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on Thursday during an interactive session with the media in Abuja, said that all the presidential aspirants who contested against the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are all in his support.